On 05/13/2014 01:58 PM, James Cloos wrote: >>>>>> "CM" == Christoph Martin <mar...@uni-mainz.de> writes: > > CM> sks depends on db-util which depends on the current db utils package. > CM> The current db-util in testing/jessie has version 5.3 and depends on > CM> db5.3-utils. > > CM> So this should be no problem. Maybe at the time of your install there > CM> was an old version of db-util installed. > > IIRC, the bug is that a newer version of db5.x-utils got installed, the > old version was removed, and apt permitted said removal even though sks > needed said old version. > > I think sks has to depend on the exact version of db5.x-utils it uses, > to ensure that it always can recover the db. > > Unless there is a better way to ensure that the proper recovery tool > is available.
Hm, please see the discussion on https://bugs.debian.org/664768 -- it looks like the sks packaging history has gone in both directions on this in the past. See also the changelog for sks 1.1.1+dpkgv3-6.1: sks (1.1.1+dpkgv3-6.1) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * Remove XA environment usage (patch from upstream) and use generic -ldb library to link with (Closes: #621384) * Add automagick upgrade of Berkeley DB databases (Closes: #606183) * Change db4.7-util to Recommends: db4.7-util and Depends: db-util -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@debian.org> Fri, 13 May 2011 12:33:13 +0200 (i've cc'ed Ondřej here in case he has any insights about how these changes might have lead toward #740775) --dkg
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