Re: RFS: dnshistory (updated package)

[Matthias Julius <mdeb@julius-net.net>]

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> I don't see anything in the maintainer scripts that would migrate the
> db files. Does dnshistory or libdb handle upgrading the on-disk db
> format? Or can libdb handle older versions of the on-disk db format?

I was assuming the latter.  But, reading
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/am/upgrade.html
this does not look like a safe assumption.

Unless the application itself checks the libdb version and upgrades
its database files.

At least with the transition from 4.6 to 4.7 the database file format
did not change.

> Bug upstream and run autoconf until the next upstream release.

OK. I'll try to do that.

> IMO screenshots of console apps can still be useful.

Sure, but this is mostly intended to be used as a pre-processor by
other applications like awffull or webalizer.

Matthias