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

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Fri Nov 2 19:06:27 UTC 2007


tags #448939 wontfix
thanks

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.

After talking to the pam maintainer and the release team, I have
decided to stay with the old way of specifying the dependency for the
time being.

Greetings
Marc

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