Package: libdb4.7-dev
Version: 4.7.25-13
Severity: grave
Justification: makes the package unusable
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:44:42PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.10.1-19
> Severity: normal
> User: pkg-db-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: db5.1
>
> Your package currently still uses Berkeley DB version 4.7 (libdb4.7).
>
> However, there is a newer Berkeley DB version in the archive (libdb5.1),
> with a compatible API. Berkeley DB version 4.7 will be eventually
> removed from unstable in favor of version 5.1.
Hi Ondřej (explicitly cc'd as the PTS still shows db4.7 as orphaned),
I see db4.7 (4.7.25-13) broke perl (5.10.1-19) build because of this:
* Remove generic -ldb and -ldb-4 linkability from the package
(db5.1 transition)
The result is (from my local perl build log):
<db.h> found.
Checking Berkeley DB version ...
/tmp/ccKS99qO.o: In function `main':
/tmp/buildd/perl-5.10.1/UU/try.c:17: undefined reference to `db_version'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I can't use Berkeley DB with your <db.h>. I'll disable Berkeley DB.
and the DB_File module doesn't get built or installed any more.
This feels like introducing gratious breakage for the sake of it.
There's not a single .so file in libdb4.7-dev so how are we supposed to
link against it at all?
As discussed in the bug log (#621383), we're going to make the transition
but please give us the time and revert the change. FWIW, this is blocking a
security fix (#622817) from sid.
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Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
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