On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 19:41, Raphael Geissert <geiss...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sunday 20 March 2011 11:15:54 Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> Your build-depends are uninstallable because you build-depend on >> libdb-dev, which depends on libdb5.1-dev, and apache2-prefork-dev >> which depends on libaprutil1-dev, which depends on libdb4.8-dev. >> >> And libdb5.1-dev and libdb4.8-dev of course conflict with each >> other. > > For apache: Stefan et al, > Do you have any objection to switch to libdb5.1-dev (and bd on libdb-dev)?
Meanwhile I will upload php5 5.3.6-2 build-depending on libdb4.8-dev and we will have to coordinate the next switch with apache2 I guess. > Based on a few tests via php, databases from 4.8 and 5.1 seem to be > compatible. This seems to be true for even longer chain of releases from what I remember from cyrus-imapd tests. > In the long term, something needs to be decided and done. The former > maintainer of db uploaded the latest version and orphaned the packages. I guess if we create pkg-db group it could be handled quite gracefully, I might be willing to join that group, because I maintain quite some packages depending on db and if we can get somebody from apache2, ldap and subversion, we would have quite strong team. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
