How about a db 5.1.25 backport
Hello,
I am considering uploading a backport of berkeley db 5.1.25. Packages
in sid are (supposed to be) switching from 4.8 and later to 5.1, which
is not available in squeeze, making backports hard.
e.g. package foobar is switching to 5.1 in 3.1-2, its maintainer
scripts check whether we are upgrading from <= 3.1-1 and upgrade to
databases to the new file format in that case. If we uploaded
3.1-2~bpo60+1 linked against the older berkeley db stuff (and
disabling the unnecessary upgrade magic) things would probably continue
to work perfectly well in bpo. However upgrading to wheezy would be
broken, since the db-upgrading scripts in the wheezy package won't be
run (3.1-2~bpo60+1 is not <= 3.1-1)
Any thoughts, what am I missing?
cu andreas
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