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Hi Thomas, |
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On Fri, 28 May 2021 15:13:41 +0200 Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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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? |
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We've discussed this at length in #gentoo-base and nobody complained. |
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> 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 |
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>it. It's not even blocking anything because it has no deps. |
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Well, it's abandoned by upstream so potential bugs will never get fixed |
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officially. Perhaps if some distros decide to continue maintenance of |
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the source code we can consider keeping the package but I don't see that |
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happen... |
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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). |
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>> Furthermore, Oracle is known to remove critical features from BDB in |
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>> patch releases, such as the removal of the client-server |
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>> architecture and the SQL API 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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I think this should belong into the news item in order to explain our |
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rationale behind this decision. |
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Kind regards |
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Lars Wendler |
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Gentoo package maintainer |
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