Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-19 Thread Clint Adams
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:44:56PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > It appears to me that essentially it is a problem moving from 4.2 to > 4.6, but I see nothing about the intermediate versions. Having 2 > releases is largely better than having 5 versions around, isn't it? I was waiting for

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-19 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:43:06AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: > > Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are > > Maybe you could help out with the bugs here: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Clint Adams schrieb: > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: >> Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are > > Maybe you could help out with the bugs here: > I don't know all the gory details so I don't feel capable to help with this effort. Besides I already have

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:00:58 +0200 "Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB > > upstream, OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a > > conseq

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Clint Adams
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sez: > Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. What are Maybe you could help out with the bugs here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED];tag=oldbdb;dist=unstable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 12:52:33AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > That's equivalent to an indefinite quarantine; according to BDB upstream, > OpenLDAP's problems with various versions are a consequence of abusing the > interface, not of using "advanced features". I'm not sure why the burden > h

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > IMHO we should declare a quarantine of a minimum of 6 months on every new > > libdb upstream, and only package it *if* openldap (*the* heavy-duty user of > > libdb advanced features) and cyrus imap (*the* thousands-of-concurrent- > > locks, mmap-happy

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:37:21AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > If you want to help reducing this number, a good point would helping > getting more documentation about the different versions (and their > differences) available, and (at least for me) make some backports of the > suggested ver

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 06:33:20PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > > > following bdb versions installed: > > > version: # of

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-17 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071016 17:50]: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6 4

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > > following bdb versions installed: > > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > > libdb4.2 40 > > libdb4.3 26 >

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6 40 > Havin

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:50:14 +0200 Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > li

Re: libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/16/07, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the > following bdb versions installed: > > version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) > libdb4.2 40 > libdb4.3 26 > libdb4.4 55 > libdb4.5 64 > libdb4.6

libdb4.* madness in unstable

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Today, while browsing through aptitude, I noticed that I had the following bdb versions installed: version: # of packages depending on it (apt-cache rdepends) libdb4.2 40 libdb4.3 26 libdb4.4 55 libdb4.5 64 libdb4.6 40 Having 5 different versions of one library is just insane imho. Wh