Re: severity of 442668 is serious
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:22:10PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> [080926 05:50]:
> > # we want to get rid of db4.3
> > severity 442668 serious
> Could I please get any explanation for this?
Redundant versions of BDB in the archive unnecessarily bloat the release and
Debian's install footprint, and impose a burden on the Debian DB packaging
team. There are currently five versions of BDB in lenny, whereas there are
only 7 packages in lenny that depend on db4.3 - *all* of which ought to have
transitioned off of it at least a year ago (when db4.6 became available;
db4.4 became available in 2005, but was not free of regressions for all use
cases). And all but three of these are fixed in unstable. It is not
justifiable for apps that make only the most basic use of BDB, as reprepro
does, to get to keep their own copy of libdb for a release.
> Is this a request to make a last-minute disruptive change upload before
> the release (it might only be a few chars in the source, but I'd be less
> frightened about several hundered untested line changes than the change
> from one libdb version to another frommy experience with those)?
Maybe if you had looked at this back in December when you were asked,
instead of making the absurd request of a stable backport as a precondition
of maintaining your package, you wouldn't find it so frightening now?
It's arrogant to think that your package needs special handling for the
"disruptive" change from db4.3 to db4.6, when dozens of packages have
already made this transition without incident. I've reviewed the reprepro
source code, and there's nothing extraordinary about its use of BDB -
nothing that should break when switching to db4.6, and nothing (such as
transactions) that requires special upgrade handling.
> If yes, then please express this explicitly and I'll do an according
> upload.
Consider it made explicit; please upload.
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