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

[Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> 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?

It depend on db4.8 for some time in the past of wheezy, so I think it would
be safer. We probably need db4.8-util anyway because there were some
users other than cyrus-imapd in the squeeze, which will need the tools.

Anyway this long list will be cut to just two version post-wheezy
(prev and cur).
The infrastructure is already there, but currently the 'prev' includes
db4.7 and db4.8.

>> >  + 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.

Ok, I'll try to tackle with the horrible sendmail build system and do a NMU.

For subversion it really needs it's maintainer attention (I just pinged him).

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>