db44 vs. db47 vs. db48

Hi there,

so last night I finally made the move from OS X 10.5 to 10.6. As part of that, I reinstalled Fink from scratch.
This went mostly fine, but there were a couple of annoyances, one of which I want to describe here:

I tried to install wireshark-ssl and xchat (which I maintain), and also git & svn (which I use). This caused
Fink to request permission to install no less than three different versions of the db package. 

This is certainly not a huge issue, but I still found it quite disturbing. Do I really need db44(-aes),
db47(-aes) and db48(-aes) all at the same time? Hrmm... So I looked a bit, and discovered the following:

* svn, libaprutil.0-* (and python26) depend on db47(-aes)
  and svn depends on libapr.0-dev

* cyrus-sasl2 and openldap24 depend db48-aes
  and svn depends on cyrus-sasl2-dev and openldap24

* python25 depends on db44(-aes)
  and unfortunately xchat depends on python25

I'll look into changing xchat to allow newer python, thus hopefully taking care of the db44 part.

But maybe we can also change our python25 to use db44? Can we change svn, libaprutil.0, python26 to use db48
instead of db47? I am not sure whether this would cause binary compatibility issues; but if it is sanely
possible, it would be preferable to use a single db4x version for all these packages, wouldn't it?

Cheers,
Max

P.S.: All of this is on Mac OS X 10.6.2, latest Fink unstable CVS, latest fink version, latest XCode, etc. ;).
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