Re: [Sks-devel] DisUnitedStates.com down; Re: DB_ENV->set_lk_detect: unknown deadlock detection mode specified

[John Clizbe]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Backports of newer Berkeley DB "work" too, and likely
>>> have some other usage cases than SKS because of bdb+sqlite3 API.
>>
>> right, this is one other path i considered, but i don't really want to
>> have to maintain a bdb backport for the remaining lifetime of squeeze.
>> maintaining an sks backport is sufficient for me :)
>>
>> OTOH, if someone else is eager to responsibly maintain a bdb backport,
>> i'd be happy to make the sks backport rely on it.  Any takers?
> 
> You could also continue using the 4.6 for the 1.1.3 backport also in use
> by 1.1.1 removing the need for one of the upgrades. This shouldn't be
> much trouble on the backports package side. I was nearly doing so for my
> local "let's try to build the unstable package on stable".

Good idea here. It makes the backports package more of a drop-in replacement.