Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sam James <sam@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev-announce@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-libs/db:6.0
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:06:44
Message-Id: 6E5923F6-3873-4F01-AEFD-022C628CAE3F@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: sys-libs/db:6.0 by Sam James
1 > On 10 Jan 2023, at 03:48, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > # Sam James <sam@g.o> (2023-01-10)
4 > # This version had a controversial licence change which stinted its adoption.
5 > # No reverse dependencies.
6 > # See also the old 2021-05-30-deprecate-old-bdb-slots news item for
7 > # additional context and bug #837629.
8 > # Removal on 2023-02-09.
9 > sys-libs/db:6.0
10
11 I'm going to yank this for now because there's packages which poorly
12 define which slots they use and it's not a very nice migration path
13 for users as-is.
14
15 Will revisit with a bugfest for berkdb consumers.

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