Bug#658829: transition: db-defaults

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 17.04.2012 23:36, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> I will check with doko, but I think it's no longer true as python has included support for bdb 5.1.
>
> But let me get back to you tomorrow, when I have full internet access.
>
> Ondřej Surý
>
> On 17. 4. 2012, at 21:32, Julien Cristau<jcristau@debian.org>  wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 15:09:05 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> >
> > > The only real obstacle is python, but since it started using db5.1, I
> > > think it won't be a big problem (like bumping from 4.8 to 5.1).
> > I thought bumping to 5.1 already required ignoring test failures?  That
> > seems rather like a problem to me.

there are regressions, but then you do have the option to use the pybsddb3 
module. berkley db is still used as the backend for the dbm module, but I don't 
see any regressions for the dbm tests.

I did see some efforts from the kfreebsd porters to nail these down, but not 
from e.g. sparc porters.

With the same argument it should be safe to build the dbm module with db-5.3 as 
a backend.

  Matthias