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

[Mike O'Connor]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:45:17PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> 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.
> 

pam build depends on libdb-dev not libdb4.6-dev which is what I'm
requesitng.

stew
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