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On 2021-05-27 00:41, David Seifert wrote: |
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> Furthermore, the Gentoo Base System Team has decided to consider |
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> sys-libs/db a deprecated database backend. |
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Uh? When did that happen? While there is no development happening |
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anymore in old versions, 5.3 is feature complete, stable and a good |
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choice for small setups like a postfix setup with the need for a few |
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lookup tables. It's offering features you don't find anywhere else. |
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As long as 5.3 keeps building... there shouldn't be any need to kill it. |
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It's not even blocking anything because it has no deps. |
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> Other distros such as Fedora have started a gradual phase-out of |
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> Berkeley DB too, given Oracle's strong-armed approach to community |
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> input and their arguably hostile switch to the AGPLv3 |
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> (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Libdb_deprecated). Furthermore, |
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> Oracle is known to remove critical features from BDB in patch releases, |
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> such as the removal of the client-server architecture and the SQL API |
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> between 18.1.32 and 18.1.40. |
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This paragraph doesn't belong into a news item. |
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Regards, |
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Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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