Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB
Hi Marco
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 05:04:03PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Apr 15, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> > After this time we really should try to get rid of this package, which
> > even is NMU maintained since three years.
> I am not persuaded. I maintain libberkeleydb-perl and it works fine, it
> is mature software.
Mature and unmaintained are not opposites. It works, but this does not
mean it's advised to be used, especially if it works on untrusted data.
(I the time I installed by current notebook, Linux 4.0 was the current
version. It would still work, but would you really still use it on the
internet?)
> And then all the packages currently depending on libdb5.3 will need to
> implement, or at least document, a transition strategy.
My first goal would be to drop it from base packages, so not every
system out there needs to have it installed.
> Let me just mention postfix (easy), inn2 (possible but very resources
> intensive) and slapd (I am not sure, but it is critical and scary).
postfix is easy. Would inn2 be license compliant with a AGPL licensed
BDB, aka able to provide the source to it's users, or what is the plan
anyway? slapd defaults to LMDB since several years and you need to
explicitely specify the bdb or hdb backend.
Regards,
Bastian
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