[csw-maintainers] berkeleydb saga

[Philip Brown]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Dagobert Michelsen<dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 03.09.2009 um 18:33 schrieb Philip Brown:
>>
>> Well, there is ONE reason to do it "the standard way":
>> new packages, tend to follow the pattern of older packages.
>...
>
> The bdb4x packages will most certainly never get an update. The
> only package to be updated would be bdb4, which already contains
> 4.7.x, so no worries there.
>

my point being, that someone updating bdb4, in the distant future, may
see the old, versioned packages, and think, "oh ok, I'd better follow
the existing 'standard' for berkeleydb, and make a separate, new,
berkeleydb4.8 package"