Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: wishlist

Hi

I would like to propose a release goal:

Remove Berkeley DB (finally)

Berkeley DB was relicensed to AGPLv3 almost eight years ago.  Since
then, Debian stayed with the last version before the license change.
The license change means, we can't take upstream patches, so security
support is only provided by other distributions with in the same state.

After this time we really should try to get rid of this package, which
even is NMU maintained since three years.

Affected source packages to remove:
- db-defaults
- db5.3

Bastian