[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#469139: Bug#469139: apt-listchanges and DB_RUNRECOVERY

[Matthias Klose]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:52:02AM -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:40:27AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > This happened to me too during today's dist-upgrade.  Also on amd64.
> > 
> > What changed?
> 
> I hadn't upgraded since Feb. 21st.  apt-listchanges did not change;
> neither did any version of libdb.
> 
> 2008-03-03 09:07:02 upgrade python2.4 2.4.4-7 2.4.4-8
> 
> 2008-03-03 09:16:41 upgrade python2.5 2.5.1-7 2.5.2-1
> 
> /usr/bin/python points to python2.4.
> 
> Hmm:
> 
>   * Build-depend on libdb4.5-dev on all architectures; 4.6 is seriously
>     broken when used with the _bsddb extension.
> 
> Does this mean Python downgraded from 4.6 to 4.5?

yes, this was recommended by upstream; tests on the buildbots do show
crashes running the testsuite.

> Will that prevent 4.5 from opening databases?

So can you rebuild the database using the db4.x utilities?

  Matthias