Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2010, 14:12:48 schrieb Ralf Haferkamp:
Hi,
I am currently thinking about upgrading our bdb packages to a new release. For that I just submitted libdb-4_8 (containing db-4.8.30) to devel:libraries:c_c++. Would be nice if somebody with sufficient privileges in devel:libraries:c_c++ could accept submit request #48969.
The next step would be integration into Factory by submitting it to Factory and adding "Provides: libdb-devel" to libdb-4_8-devel while removing it from libdb-4_5-devel (I guess we still need to keep libdb-4_5 around for some time) to make depended packages build against the new Version.
But as history has shown libdb version updates can be a source of trouble so I'd like to ask what the best aproach would be to integrate it into Factory. In the pre-Buildservice times we had the "BETA" distribution to test those bigger changes. How is it handled nowadays? Is openSUSE:Factory:Staging comparable to BETA?
comparable, but better. You can submit your sources there and we can see.
What about the data format? any suprises or "just" API changes?
Greetings, Stephan