[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#460562: Bug#460562: change of package name to "libdb-dev" makes it uninstallable

Sun Jan 13 18:46:13 UTC 2008

* Martin Guy:

> Is there a good reason not to continue the scheme used in
> libdb4.[12345] ?

The name scheme is not the problem, it's the fact that all Berkeley DB
-dev packages conflict (because they all install the db.h header file).

Can't you link Subversion against Berkeley DB 4.6?  According to a
report on the Subversion mailing list, the current version passes its
test suite unchanged even when using Berkeley DB.