Bug#624434: [new check]: uses-versioned-berkeley-db
On 2011-04-28 14:55, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> 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:
> [...]
> -- no debconf information
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>
>
Hey,
Can we recycle the obsolete packages for this? I do not mind doing it;
I just need to know if it is a proper way to handle this.
~Niels
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