Bug#155939: The dependencies of libc6 must handle packages that break without db1

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 09:56:30AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> > I don't see a way how this could be handled outside the dependencies of
> > libc6. One possible solution is to create a libdb1g package in oldlibs and
> > let the libc6 in sarge depend on this package (the dependency can be
> > dropped after sarge is released).
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. Someone has already offered to do exactly this
> (and please don't use the "g" extension, it dates back to hamm, and
> serves no good purpose nowadays).

There is one problem there in that there's already a libdb1 package
providing libdb.so.1.85.4, and although the differences are small I
think they're enough for it to be incompatible. The compatibility
package would have to be called something else.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]