Bug#621101: transition: db (db4,6, db4.7, db4.8)

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Wed, May  9, 2012 at 08:57:19 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote:

> 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.
> 
On a quick look, cyrus in squeeze seems to depend on db4.7.  Does it
also need db4.8-util?

> >  + python2.6
> 
> Isn't python2.6 going away after python2.7 transition is complete?
> 
I think it's too late now.  Matthias might disagree.

> >  + 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.
> 
Not going to happen, I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Julien