[MacPorts] #57707: db44: replace with db48

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#57707: db44: replace with db48
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  Reporter:  jmroot                              |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  enhancement                         |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal                              |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                               |    Version:
Resolution:                                      |   Keywords:
      Port:  db44, cyrus-imapd, redland, open-   |
  cobol, cfengine                                |
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Changes (by ryandesign):

 * cc: Schamschula, ryandesign, MarcusCalhoun-Lopez, blair (added)


Comment:

 There may be reasons why sometimes older BerkeleyDB versions are preferred
 over newer ones. Certainly I could understand if a port wanted BerkeleyDB
 4 instead of 5 or 6, but even within the minor version numbers there seems
 to be some occurrence of that. Twice as many ports currently use db46 as
 use db48. Marius even deliberately
 [changeset:4753ab7cfdd667fc1f93d6c23153bda61c46d3db/macports-ports changed
 mod_qos from db48 to db46] though I don't know why. (Marius, do you
 remember?)

 I wonder if we should perhaps be trying to consolidate the BDB versions a
 bit more, and offer only db4, db5, and db6 ports for the latest version of
 each, and try to fix whatever issues the ports might have with those
 latest versions. It would help if there were a single maintainer for all
 the BDB ports who could guide the collection as a whole, instead of having
 each version maintained by someone else.

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