Bug#621383: Still uses libdb4.7

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 08:45:44AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> IMO, it should absolutely go in 5.12/experimental straight away to
> spot any arch-specific test failures. 

I see you've made a start on this - thanks!

> After that, a new round of manual
> rebuilds of the lib*-perl packages against 5.12 could be done to find any
> "obvious" breakage.

It's probably about time I did another rebuild and review of outstanding
perl 5.12 related bugs - I'll probably be able to do this next weekend.

> However, if the 5.12 (or 5.14?) transition is still going to take months,
> it might be good to decouple the db transition in order to not waste
> those months. They could just as well be used for finding and fixing
> any db related bugs in testing/unstable.

Okay, let's see how things go in the next couple of weeks.

> I'm a bit concerned about user databases breaking on upgrades, but IIUC
> the transactional mode needs to be enabled with a DB_INIT_TXN flag [1]
> (among other things), and the Perl sources don't use that anywhere.
> Therefore, it seems possible that transactions can't be used through
> DB_File anyway and we're safe from the incompatibility. This probably
> needs further investigation.

Okay. Perhaps we can check whether there was any similar situations with
previous libdb upgrades.

> [1] http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html/gsg_txn/C/enabletxn.html

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