Bug#621383: Still uses libdb4.7

[Ondřej Surý]

2011/4/7 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>:
> found 621383 5.12.3-2
> thanks
>
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:44:42PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>> Package: perl
>> Version: 5.10.1-19
>> Severity: normal
>> User: pkg-db-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Usertags: db5.1
>>
>> Your package currently still uses Berkeley DB version 4.7 (libdb4.7).
>>
>> However, there is a newer Berkeley DB version in the archive (libdb5.1),
>> with a compatible API.  Berkeley DB version 4.7 will be eventually
>> removed from unstable in favor of version 5.1.
>>
>> Please port your package to libdb5.1 as soon as possible.  In most cases
>> only change required is to update build depends from libdb4.7-dev
>> to libdb-dev, or just recompile the package.
>
> I propose that we tackle this in 5.12/experimental first; I imagine
> that there is a potential for some breakage when updating the version
> of libdb in use by perl, and if we are able to proceed with the perl-5.12
> transition[1] in the next few months then hopefully this won't be too much
> of a burden on the libdb maintainers, and will avoid too many separate
> rounds of breakage.
>
> Ondřej, any thoughts on this plan?

Sound great! And I fully agree that packages like perl/python/...
should be cautious when updating BDB since it may cause breakages
elsewhere down the chain.

O.
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