Re: Removal of Libdb5.3

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Busireddy, Nikhitha Reddy wrote: 
> Hey Team,
> 
> We are building a project on Debian:bullseye, and due to security issues, we are trying to remove libdb5.3 package. Is it recommended to remove this package? And is there any better alternative package for libdb5.3? Because, when we delete libdb5.3, it’s deleting some essential packages such as apt-get, even holding these packages doesn’t seem to work. Could you please provide some suggestions on this?

First: what security issues? If you know of a problem in libdb,
have you reported it to the package maintainer?

Here's the bug page for it: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=stable;package=libdb5.3


You cannot remove libdb and have a usable Debian system;
apt-utils depends on it. 

-dsr-