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Re: Why does gdbm break packages in Sarge?



On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 11:35:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:02:17AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=gdbm shows that gdbm
> > breaks 1079 packages that are in testing. I checked the changelog for
> > gdbm, and I believe the changes were necessary, and were far more than
> > cosmetic. Why would so many packages be broken by the new gdbm
> > entering Sarge? Are dependencies set to specifically the previous
> > version(s) of gdbm?

> Almost all of the things you see are spurious, since the gdbm and
> gdbm173 source packages need to be pushed in simultaneously; the
> apparent breakage is mostly due to the fact that upgrading only gdbm
> without gdbm173 breaks the version of perl in testing.

> However, a new version of apache2 is needed before gdbm can be upgraded,
> because the version of libapr0-dev in testing depends on libgdbmg1-dev
> which is now gone, and apache2 needs a new version of openldap2 which is
> blocked on several release-critical bugs.

A fix for the last openldap2 RC bug is in the works.  A patch is
available, but since porting from OpenSSL to GNUTLS is a substantial
change, some more testing is called for yet.  Also, getting OpenLDAP
into testing will depend on getting a new (not yet uploaded) libgnutls
into testing, as the port turned up an ABI problem with the current
GNUTLS on 64-bit platforms.  We'll hopefully see results in this area
in two to three weeks (the new gnutls will be released this coming week,
AIUI).

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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