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Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB



Hi,

On 15.04.21 18:12, Bastian Blank wrote:
> 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

I second this proposal.

Best regards,
Martin

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