Bug#624434: [new check]: uses-versioned-berkeley-db
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc2~bpo60+1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
there are only a few packages which really needs to depend on
versioned libdbX.Y(|++|-java|-sql|-stl)-dev packages, so I propose new
lintian error, which will check the build dependencies and report if
the package build-depend on a versioned Berkeley DB.
There are few packages which really need versioned dependency (they
use transactions in Berkeley DB and don't have a sane upgrade path)
which could easily override this tag.
This would really help the goal of having only one Berkeley DB version
per stable release.
Thanks,
Ondrej
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.53-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.48-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-2 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii locales-all [locales] 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.7-8 on-line manual pager
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