Bug#679496: [cyrus-imapd-2.2 source] dependency problem: libdb4.7-dev vs libdb4.8-dev

[Ondřej Surý]

> Some naive users (like me) could think in the stable release all
> software should use the same version of BDB. :->
> IMHO this is problem is not in upstream software but with debianizing.
> But I may be wrong...

That's an opinion and not a bug. Note that BDB packaging and
dependencies are/were very difficult and your premise about 'not in
upstream' is simply wrong. Some packages just got broken when compiled
with different BDB version, because of BDB upstream change in
behaviour.

However this state (only one version of BDB) was achieved in wheezy[*]
after I took over BDB maintainence in Debian. And it took enormous
amount of time to achieve that.

* - Only db5.1 is present at the moment (after the python2.6 is
sucessfully built).

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>