Re: Bug#197875: python2.3: module dbm is missing
Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:
> Encolpe DEGOUTE writes:
>> Package: python2.3
>> Version: 2.2.104-1beta1.1
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: sid
>>
>> Module dbm.so is missing in sid build.
>
> That's correct. The db1 compat headers aren't available anymore. Is
> there really a need to have this module? why not use the anydbm module
> (or explicitely the bsddb module).
>
> It could be build using the gdbm module, but this would add another
> dependency on an optional library package (gdbm).
Well that's a dependency perl already has so it's not necessarily a
problem (at least from a 'priority' point of view - I'm not sure if
that's what you meant by optional).
--
James
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