On Saturday 02 February 2008 17:58:35 Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > It seems that the correct way to package that would be to do a > libdb-ruby package, which build-depends on libdb-dev, and is updated > with a binNMU when libdb-dev is updated. Yes, although I think it'd be more complex than that as there need to be binaries for how ever many libdb versions Debian is supporting in a release. > Would you take care of that? Care to do that inside the pkg-ruby-extras > team? Or you are just interested in someone (anyone) doing the work? I'm just interested in doing the work. Unfortunately in testing my package I (as you thought might be the case when we discussed it on IRC) found some significant compatibility problems with the current upstream code and libdb4.5 and 4.6. Specifically the threaded transaction example in the upstream package just hangs. I've looked into it a big and the upstream code is using some old bits of API (one piece I found was deprecated in db 4.0 and removed in 4.5). This is going to be a significant piece of work. I'd be glad to place whatever I manage out of this in the team. Scott K
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