On 18.4.2011, at 17:18, Rafael Cunha de Almeida <raf...@kontesti.me> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:52:10PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> Package: tcpstat >> Severity: normal >> >> Hi, >> >> is there a reason why you link and depend to a specific version of >> libdb? > > There isn't necessarily. I don't know much about libdb myself, but in > previous releases I had problems trying to link with -ldb. It was > probably my own fault, though. Not necessarily... The db packages changed a lot on unstable. >> It doesn't seem that tcpstat use anything special from >> Berkeley DB (transactions) so there is no reason to depend on >> libdbX.Y-dev instead of libdb-dev. >> >> Could you please do that change? > > It certainly doesn't use transactions. In fact, the only reason the > package uses libdb is to create an in-memory hash (it doesn't even > create any files). I'll try to make the package depend on libdb-dev > instead. Cool, it is much appreciated. > However, I have a question regarding that change. By depending > on a generic libdb-dev, don't I risk the package breaking when future > versions of libdb are released? That would be my fault as Berkeley DB maintainer. If there is such risk I will inform you (and all other affected packages). O. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
