Re: Migration from Berkeley DB

Hello,

>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> writes:

    >> Though, if I understand right, the dump format is designed just
    >> for transferring data platform independently, isn't it?

    Samuel> Ah, I missed that mdb_dump is not producing an arch-specific
    Samuel> binary but an text output. It's platform-independent then,
    Samuel> indeed. Perhaps it'd be interesting to gzip it, though.

Just have it done. And placed generated database in
/usr/lib/freespeech. Is it acceptable now?

    Samuel> The concern, however, is that the database is currently in
    Samuel> /usr/share/freespeech which is supposed to have only
    Samuel> arch-independent data. And to keep the multi-arch property
    Samuel> we'd have to rather use a multiarch path, so it should
    Samuel> rather be moved to /usr/lib/${arch}/freespeech
    >> 
    >> I'd rather prefer /usr/lib/freespeech to not disturb multispeech
    >> making its default configuration platform dependent.

    Samuel> Then it's not multi-arch any more.

I think, it doesn't much matter in this particular case.

    >> By the way, I've received a note that multispeech package is
    >> marked for autoremoval from testing, and I cannot figure out what
    >> should I do fo the situation.

    Samuel> It seems that this mark has disappeared.

But I did not see a cancellation note, anyway.

    Samuel> It was probably just a dependency that got an issue.

Yes, but questionable dependence is somewhat indirect.

Best regards,
Igor.