Bug#448939: exim4: Please build-depend on libdb-dev instead of the virtual package libdb4.6-dev

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:33:10PM -0400, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Please replace the build-depency on libdb4.6-dev with a versioned bulid
> dependency on libdb-dev (>> 4.6) as libdb4.6-dev is a virtual package
> provided by libdb-dev.  Having a build-dependency on a vitual package
> has the potential to cause problems.

We had that discussion weeks ago and settled on manually depending on
whatever db library is depended on by libpam-modules. This is being
done to keep the number of db libraries down in the installer. exim4
is a base package.

Please advise whether your wish will us still allow to stay manually
in sync with libpam-modules, and where stuff like that is documented.

Greetings
Marc

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