Re: RFS: dbxml

[Lars Buitinck <larsmans@gmail.com>]

2011/6/24 Michael Tautschnig <mt@debian.org>:
> Well, after a long while I got around to review this package. Here are my
> observations:
>
> - debian/README.source isn't actually helpful...
> - There is no libdb4.8++-dev in sid. It's libdb5.1++-dev now.
> - Having installed that, configure fails nevertheless:
>  configure: error: /usr not a valid Berkeley DB tree.  Note that Berkeley DB
>  must be configured and built with '--enable-cxx'.
>
> Other than this, the package would look fine. Hence if you could figure out how
> to update for 5.1, I'd offer to re-review the package (in a more timely
> manner!).

Hello Michael,

Thanks for the review. I've dropped my work on dbxml due to a change
of jobs, but my former colleague Daniël de Kok (cc) has taken over.
He's found that dbxml works fine with BDB 5.1, producing
backward-compatible files. Greg Burd, formerly of Oracle, has
confirmed that this should be the case in general
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/157165/comments/20).

README.source should not have been there. The relevant info is in
README.Debian. Apologies for that.

I hope Daniël will be able to fix the remaining issue.

Regards,
Lars