On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > it seems to be the right time to do an unification/reorganization of > Oracle (Berkeley) DB packages in rawhide. The current situation is that > there are three of them: > > compat-db - shipping old libdbs for compatibility (4.5,4.6 and 4.7) > db4 - shipping latest 4.x libdb series (4.8) > libdb - shipping latest libdb release (5.3) > > What I'm planning to do is getting rid of db4 package. But before that > I want to clean-up compat-db for a bit. > > After fiddling a bit with repoquery nothing seems to be dependent on > libdb-4.5 so if there are no objections I want to remove it. > > There was only one package dependent on 4.6 (squidGuard) because it > had compilation problems with 4.7. This package is now built against > 5.3 with no problem so 4.6 could go away from compat-db as well. > > Only one package (pam_abl-0:0.2.3-8.fc12) was dependent on 4.7 > in Fedora 17 but it's already rebuilt in rawhide so 4.7 can go away as > well. > > So the plan is: > 1) remove 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 from compat-db > 2) put 4.8 to compat-db > 3) make db4 a dead package > (db4 package name is not very descriptive any more as we have > libdb-5.3 ...) > > The reason I'm sending this to fedora-devel is that I'm unable to > reveal dlopen() or similar deps in packages so if your package > requires older libdb I plan to remove and can not be rebuilt against > newer libdb then please speak up! Please have a look at this, seems like a good time to get it out of the way. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225647 Thanks! -J > Thanks, > Jindrich > > -- > Jindrich Novy <jnovy@xxxxxxxxxx> http://people.redhat.com/jnovy/ > Kdo víno má a nepije, kdo hrozny má a nejí je, kdo ženu má a nelíbá, > kdo zábavě se vyhýbá, na toho vemte bič a hůl, to není člověk, to je vůl. > --- Jan Werich > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- http://cecinestpasunefromage.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------ in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
