Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2024-03-22 Thread Marco Moock
On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 08:50:29 +0100 Paul Gevers wrote: > > Remove Berkeley DB (finally) > > Sure. But I agree with several readers of this bug that there should > be a plan. We shouldn't kill it until the users are able to sanely > move away from it. I doubt that will happen automatically, so >

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2023-02-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 04, Paul Gevers wrote: > I don't see the preparation happening in time for bookworm, so if the > preparations are done for trixie, Berkeley DB can be removed in forky. I object again to removing Berkeley DB: it is mature software and it works fine. At least inn2 uses it, and a

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2023-02-03 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, As a Release Team member, I'm leave a small note here. On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:12:17 +0200 Bastian Blank wrote: I would like to propose a release goal: It has been a while since we did release goals in the formal way. I recommend instead to discuss this in a bigger audience and get

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2023-02-03 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Apache httpd allows to use DBM file for various purposes. The default format is Berkeley DB. This is highly configuration dependent, automatic migration by maintainer scripts seems unfeasible. This means that the users need time and a tool to migrate their configurations. I have opened [1] for

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2022-05-14 Thread Bastian Germann
X-Debbugs-Cc: b...@debian.org Hi, cyrus-sasl2 package maintainer here. I am interested in the state of this since BerkeleyDB will be removed from sasl upstream with the next release [0]. There are several other implementations to choose from: gdbm|lmdb|ndbm. ndbm does not exist in Debian and

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-08-23 Thread Trent W. Buck
Matthias Klose wrote: >> Then there's user code too. I also think we'll need at least a dumper >> utility so that users can migrate their data manually when they discover >> their program no longer works after upgrading. > > For Python, the dbm/ndbm.py module, based on the _dbm extension is also >

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-05-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:36:57PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 16, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > 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? > The plan is to continue using 5.3,

Re: Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-05-05 Thread Matthias Klose
On 5/5/21 8:51 PM, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 08:29:52PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 05:04:03PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >>> And then all the packages currently depending on libdb5.3 will need to >>> implement, or at least document, a transition

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-05-05 Thread Niko Tyni
On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 08:29:52PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 05:04:03PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > 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

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-19 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Thanks for your explanation. Gerardo Il giorno ven 16 apr 2021 alle ore 20:09 Bastian Blank ha scritto: > > Hi Gerardo > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:30:08AM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > > Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Berkeley DB was relicensed to AGPLv3 almost eight years ago. > > Sorry but

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 16, Bastian Blank wrote: > 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? The plan is to continue using 5.3, not upgrading. > slapd defaults to LMDB since several years and you

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-16 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Marco On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 05:04:03PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 15, Bastian Blank 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,

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-16 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Gerardo On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:30:08AM +0200, Gerardo Ballabio wrote: > Bastian Blank wrote: > > Berkeley DB was relicensed to AGPLv3 almost eight years ago. > Sorry but I don't understand, why is that a problem? > I believe the AGPL (you mean the GNU Affero General Public License, >

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 15, Bastian Blank 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. But even if we agree that all the libdb5.3 reverse

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-16 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Bastian Blank wrote: > Berkeley DB was relicensed to AGPLv3 almost eight years ago. Sorry but I don't understand, why is that a problem? I believe the AGPL (you mean the GNU Affero General Public License, right?) is a free license. Is it not? Gerardo

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-16 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
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

Bug#987013: Release goal proposal: Remove Berkeley DB

2021-04-15 Thread Bastian Blank
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