Re: GDBM is getting out of date
Scott James Remnant <sjr@demon.net> wrote:
>GDBM 1.8.0 has been out for over two years now, yet there is still no
>Debian package for it.
>
>Are there plans to provide a new package for it?
/usr/share/doc/libgdbmg1/changelog.Debian.gz says:
gdbm (1.7.3-27) unstable; urgency=low
* No 1.8 yet because a) the soname has changed, making packaging it less
trivial, b) the upstream changes are not hugely important and c) 1.8
appears after 5 years of upstream inactivity and has since been
followed by another 18 months of upstream inactivity despite some
trivial and annoying build bugs in 1.8 which must hit almost everyone
who tries to build it from source.
* Migration warnings are left unchanged as a result of (c) above.
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-- James Troup <james@nocrew.org> Sat, 30 Dec 2000 01:07:10 +0000
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Colin Watson [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
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