Re: Dependance on an unavailable library
Jon Eisenstein <jeisen@mindspring.com> writes:
> I'm building a package that depends on gdbm 1.8.0, which is newer
> than the version Debian uses. I notified the gdbm maintainer, but
> have not received a response.
Well, a response _was_ sent.
--
James
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| Subject: Re: GDBM 1.8.0
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| From: James Troup <james@nocrew.org>
| Date: 21 Jan 2001 16:52:16 +0000
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| Jon Eisenstein <jeisen@mindspring.com> writes:
|
| > I know there's a bug report already filed about this, so I don't want to
| > pester you, but I'd just like to know if you're updating the packaged GDBM
| > for Debian to 1.8.0. I'm packaging the new TinyMUSH, which depends on that
| > version, but it includes the source to compile a non-shared gdbm1.8 if it
| > is not available on the system. So, before I go ahead and include that in
| > the build process, could you just tell me if the new version will be in a
| > Debian package fairly soon?
|
| > From /usr/share/doc/libgdbmg1/changelog.Debian.gz:
|
| | 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.
|
| So; go ahead and include the non-shared gdbm1.8.
|
| --
| James
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