Re: Future of db5.3 - help needed
On 2025-10-03 Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org> wrote:
> Hello fellow Debian developers,
> as you likely are aware, the db5.3 package ("Berkeley DB", short "bdb" or
> just "db") is orphaned in Debian, and also upstream (Oracle) changed the
> license for new versions. It is also a popular library for "simple"
> databases. This leaves us with the problem that we ship this to our users,
> but the future of it seems problematic and possibly unsupportable.
[...]
> Help on all these tasks would surely be appreciated. Feel free to mark any
> bugs you file as blocking #1117120.
[...]
> exim4 (U)
For exim I will probably switch to using sqlite3 for its hint database.
(It was possible with 4.98 already but not ready for primetime.)
cu Andreas
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