Bug#658829: Bug#706895: transition: db5.3

[Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>]

Hi release team and Matthias,

the information from Matthias was correct, and Berkeley DB 6.0 has been released today, + packaged and uploaded to unstable.

db-defaults has been updated to 6.0 dependencies and uploaded to experimental.

I don't expect bigger problems with the transition since I think we went through the biggest hell when transitioning from db4.{7,8} to db5.1, but there might be still some packages which will need some patching to support major version bump (although I think I have provided patches for most of those when the bump from 4 to 5 happened).

We will just remove db5.3 from the archive when python-bsddb3 will transition from db5.3 to db6.0.

Regards,

Ondrej

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org> wrote:

If the information is true then I don't mind waiting couple of months for BDB 6. I just wish Berkeley DB was acquired by some more open company :-/.

The new major version number is also often a culprit for breakages, although I think I have fixed most if not all of them in 4->5 transition.

Ondřej Surý

On 6. 5. 2013, at 18:47, Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> wrote:

> Am 06.05.2013 08:25, schrieb Ondřej Surý:
>> BTW do you have any information on db 6.x?  I haven't seen any nor I
>> have been able to find any information about it.
>
> see http://bugs.python.org/issue17477
>

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Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>