Re: request for package review - serel

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

[Resent because I accidentally sent this to Colin per Email, sorry.]
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 06:24:09PM +1000, Leni Mayo wrote:
>> I am new to Debian and have packaged some software which lets the
>> boot scripts (/etc/rc[12345].d) run in parallel.  It also supports
>> visualisation of services, dependencies and timings.
[...] 
>> One known bug is that the -ldb library is currently statically
>> linked into the daemon, and it ought to be dynamically
>> linked.  I haven't yet figured how to bind the linker to a specific
>> version of db that's known to be widely deployed.
 
> Use whatever version you think is appropriate (say, db3) and let
> dependencies do the rest of the work for you.

IANDD but db3 is placed in /usr/lib and probably cannot be used for
for a system-bootup software, /usr/ might not be mounted yet.

Actually I am confused because there is /lib/libdb.so.3 in package
libdb2.
                 cu andreas