Bug#1119175: fsvs: Depends on db5.3

To: Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at>
Cc: 1119175@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#1119175: fsvs: Depends on db5.3
From: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:16:14 +0100
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* Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at> [251028 08:05]:

Hi Chris,

your package depends or otherwise uses db5.3 ("Berkeley DB"). The
upstream of db5.3 has ceased maintaining it, and it is also orphaned
in Debian. See #987013 for discussion. Please update your package to
remove any uses of db5.3 for forky.
If necessary, provide an upgrade path in forky and remove usage in
duke.


I believe this to be an error in debian/control --
fsvs itself uses gdbm, it's libsvn_fs_base that requires db5.3:

[..]

https://sources.debian.org/src/fsvs/1.2.12-1/debian/control#L5
lists Build-Depends: libdb-dev.

I don't know why it does that. Can you remove it, if you're sayingit doesn't actually need it?


Best,
Chris

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