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Re: CALM: error while merging uploaded packages for db (obsoleting db4.8)
On Fri, 2016-08-19 at 20:13 +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > In the x86 area there's only a release/db4.8 dir, but no
> > release/db/db4.8 dir:
>
> > $ ls -d db*
> > db4.8 dbus dbus-glib
> > $ ls db4.8
> > db4.8-4.8.30-1-src.tar.bz2 db4.8-doc libdb4.8-
> devel setup.hint tcl-db4.8
> > db4.8-4.8.30-
> 1.tar.bz2 libdb4.8 md5.sum sha512.sum
>
> > In your staging area there's only a db dir containing multiple
> db4.8
> > releated dirs in parallel:
>
> > $ ls
> > db-6.2.23-1-src.tar.xz db-doc libdb-devel setup.hint
> > db-6.2.23-1.tar.xz db4.8 libdb4.8-devel tcl-db
> > db-debuginfo db4.8-doc libdb6.2
>
> > This looks wrong anyway, even if you planned to obsolete 4.8.
>
> > Are you going to try further yourself (I just remove the entire
> content
> > of your db staging dir) or do you need manual intervention? If
> the
> > latter, what *exactly* is the desired result?
>
> Please remove everything...I know now what I did wrong and will try
> again as soon you give me the go...
>
I would ask you to hold off on 6.x. The licence change to AGPLv3+ is
incompatible with a number of packages which use libdb, and therefore
both Fedora and Debian have refrained from upgrading past the latest
5.3 revisions for legal reasons.
I understand this may put you in an uncomfortable position given your
employer, but it is unfortunately necessary.
--
Yaakov