Re: [ITA] libaprutil1-1.3.4-1

[David Rothenberger <daveroth@acm.org>]

Ping.

Is there anything else I need to do before this is uploaded?

On 9/1/2008 1:28 AM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 9/1/2008 1:21 AM, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> libaprutil1 setup.hint
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> category: Libs
>> requires: cygwin crypt libapr1 libdb4.2 libexpat1 libgdbm4 libiconv2 
>> libopenldap2_3_0 libpq5 libsqlite3_0
>> sdesc: "Apache Portable Runtime utility library (runtime)"
>> ldesc: "The mission of the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) project is to
>> create and maintain software libraries that provide a predictable and
>> consistent interface to underlying platform-specific implementations.
>> The primary goal is to provide an API to which software developers may
>> code and be assured of predictable if not identical behaviour regardless
>> of the platform on which their software is built, relieving them of the
>> need to code special-case conditions to work around or take advantage of
>> platform-specific deficiencies or features."
> 
> I should point out that I'm still building against libdb4.2 because I 
> don't know what effect upgrading to libdb4.6 would have on packages like 
> subversion. Specifically, I don't know if this would require repository 
> dumps and reloads if the repository uses bdb.
> 
> Also, the ldap, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3 dependencies are for included 
> loadable modules; they are not required for the main library. Should I 
> include those as dependencies or let other packages that actually use 
> the modules declare them?
> 


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