Bug#658829: Bug#706895: transition: db5.3
* Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org> [130611 08:27]:
> 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.
Are those package also available somewhere while it is still stuck in
NEW? I managed to build something from git but that needed to remove a
patch that already seems to be applied upstream and removing some
signature check to make it build.
> 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).
The API changes from 5 -> 6 at least break reprepro.
Bernhard R. Link
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