[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#500990: Bug#500990: libdb-dev: Dependency issues triggered by (full-)upgrade for libdb*-dev

David Ayers ayers at fsfe.org
Sat Oct 4 12:46:24 UTC 2008


Hello Clint,

Thank you very much for your reply!

Am Freitag, den 03.10.2008, 19:01 +0000 schrieb Clint Adams:

> Not quite; we have moved from the form of libdb4.6-dev providing
> libdb-dev to the form of libdb-dev being the real package to a new form where
> libdb-dev is just a "dummy" package depending on libdb4.6-dev.
> You are experiencing fallout from this last change.

> The package dependencies could be updated so that the tools upgrade more
> smoothly.  However, this issue will only affect users of testing, such
> as yourself, and thus this is not a critical issue for the release.

OK, so if I understand you correctly

- rather than accepting the suggestion to upgrade libdb-dev which claims
to be for 4.7.25.2 and would not match either libdb4.6 (4.6.21-8) [which
is what is currently installed] or libdb4.6 (4.6.21-11) [which is what
seems to the next package to migrate to testing]

- I should simply wait until libdb4.7 (4.7.25-4) migrates to testing

Correct?  If so please feel free to close the report (actually could I
close it myself?) and I hope this report is helpful for others who were
confused like me.

Thanks again!
David Ayers







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