[Fedora-packaging] Re: New db4 update and package changes

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Thu Aug 9 13:09:13 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 08:58 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 14:27 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:01:00AM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > > you may have noticed Oracle released db-4.6.18 recently. The update is
> > > now prepared in CVS, old db-4.5.20 is now moved to compat-db so the new
> > > db4 is ready to hit rawhide soon.
> > > 
> > > I want to announce a change I made in the new db4, that may affect
> > > you from the packaging POV if your package is dependent on db4. It is
> > > that I moved all the C++ stuff to db4-cxx and db4-cxx-devel subpackages
> > > to reduce dependency bloat (#220484).
> > > 
> > > If you have any proposals/objections related to the update, please speak up.
> > 
> > I can understand the splitting of the runtime bits, but why split the
> > *-devel package?
> 
> +1. Splitting the -devel package is a rather significant alteration, for
> little benefit (and shouldn't increase dependency bloat).
It means that the db4-devel must require both db4 and db4-cxx packages.
So there is a little bit of dependency bloat there.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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