Re: [Tracker] Bug#452657: tracker: please consider dropping dependency on qdbm

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:35 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 02:33:12PM +0000, jamie wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 12:39 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > > On sam, nov 24, 2007 at 11:31:34 +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > > > Package: tracker
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > > Tags: patch
> >
> >
> > we can do this for tracker 0.7 - for 0.6.* its not backwards compatible
> > with qdbm indexes and I dont wanna force a reindex unitl 0.7
> >
> > jamie
>
>   Well that's the whole point of the patch I sent, it convert databases
> on the fly. Given that qdbm/tc deal with something like 10^6 inserts
> every one or 2 seconds, it's likely that no user will even notice it.
>
>
>   This conversion code could be kept for a few versions, until every
> user is likely not to have any old index anymore, and then the qdbm
> dependency could be dropped altogether.
>
>   In debian terms, that'd be great to have the conversion code in lenny,
> and to drop it for lenny+1.


sure

But we will force a reindex in 0.7  anyhow as we will use the xesam
metadata so may as well drop qdbm at that point if the replacement is
superior

I will be releaseing 0.6.4 shortly and the one after that will be 0.7 so
hopefully in a month or two you can

jamie