Bug#156356: ITP: db1-compat -- Berkeley DB 1 compatibility library
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : db1-compat (binary package libdb1-compat)
Version : 3.1.3 (based on db1-addon-2.1.3.tar.bz2 from glibc)
Upstream Author : Sleepycat Software
* URL : http://www.sleepycat.com/
* License : Sleepycat licence, same as other libdb* packages
Description : The Berkeley database routines [glibc 2.0/2.1 compatibility]
I'm putting together a package that provides libdb.so.2, which was
recently removed from glibc. This package is intended only for
compatibility with old third-party binaries; if your package ends up
using it, it is buggy and should switch to libdb4.0 or similar.
Accordingly, there will be no corresponding development package.
A preview is available at
http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/db1-compat/, but I haven't fully
tested it yet and still need to discuss some details with the glibc
maintainers. (So if the .deb there breaks your system, you get to keep
both pieces ...) For example, if libc6 is to depend on it for sarge,
it'll be Priority: required, otherwise it'll be Priority: extra.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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