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).
~spot