Re: Build against libdb1 instead of libdb2

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:50:11PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To close this bug #89670 "should consider switching to libdb3", I can build
> gnome-libs against libdb1.
> 
> This is a good idea ?

Probably not:

Package: libdb1
Priority: optional
Section: oldlibs
[...]
Version: 1.85.4-5
Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.46)
[...]
Description: The Berkeley database routines (runtime version) [libc5 package]

So it looks very deprecated; you don't really want to be building new
libc5 packages, do you?

   Julian

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