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Bug#141448: apt: building apt requires libdb2-dev which conflicts with libdb3-dev



Hi!

> > Tried to build apt 0.54 from source. This requires libdb2-dev. However
> > I have libdb3-dev installed and libdb2-dev cannot be installed because
> > it conflicts with libdb2-dev. apt should be fixed to use whatever lib
> > is available.
> 
> eh? db2 and db3 are not necessarily compatible with each other....

I must admit that libdb is probably a large mess...

But what should I do when libdb2-dev and libdb3-dev cannot be installed
in parallel? Deinstall libdb3-dev to compile apt?

Regards,
hjb
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