Bug#621101: transition: db (db4,6, db4.7, db4.8)
On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 16:43:01 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>
>> I would like to coordinate reduction of BDB packages since I took the
>> unhappy job (as I could expect) to maintain BDB in Debian after Clint
>> have orphaned them.
>>
> So as far as I can tell we currently have in wheezy:
> - db4.7, building db4.7-util (why?). Only reverse dep is
> cyrus-imapd-2.4.
> - db4.8, with reverse dependencies:
> + cyrus-imapd-2.4
cyrus-imapd-2.4 depends on (prev-stable) dbX.Y-util to automatically
upgrade it's database files. So the answer for (why?) is: because it's
needed to upgrade some (journaled, replicated) old bdb database files.
db4.8 will be converted to db4.8-util only package after those three
rev-deps you mentioned below will be resolved.
> + python2.6
Isn't python2.6 going away after python2.7 transition is complete?
> + sendmail
Sendmail maintainer is unresponsive. (Two RC bugs.)
I can NMU, but my only knowledge of sendmail is only 'the big evil MTA' :)
> + subversion
4 RC bugs
I suggest to remove sendmail and subversion from testing for the time being.
> Is there any chance we can reduce that list further still?
> - db5.1, default
Yup.
> - db5.3, with no reverse dependencies.
>
> I think it's too late to switch to 5.3 now, so unless there's a good
> reason I'll probably remove it from wheezy.
That's a shame, but I understand. Please remove from testing. Should I
create transition blocker bug or you can do some RM magic?
O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
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