Package: db Version: 4.6-1 Severity: important Some issues with the package renamings:
- Changing the source name to an unversioned name will make it impossible to build two sets of dbX.Y packages at the same time (which is required for database updates between two versions). An upgrade from 4.6 to 4.7 with the same name scheme is impossible. 4.7 can change back its source package name to db4.7, but why change it all for 4.6? - It is hard to build depend on a specific libdb4.6-dev version. Encoding something like 'libdb-dev (<< 4.7)' will break these packages if libdb-dev is upgraded. Please consider to provide a real libdb4.6-dev package, plus a libdb-dev package, so packages do have the choice for the build dependency. - libdb4.6++-dev depending on libdb-dev will break on upgrades, so even for this reason, you need a libdb4.6-dev (or worse, a libdb++-dev). The benefit to have a libdb-dev package is to make packaging simpler for packages not using transactions, but it makes it much harder for the other packages. Suggesting: - Rename the source package to db4.6. - Add a libdb4.6-dev package, with libdb-dev depending on libdb4.6-dev. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
