Hi Ryan, On 1/26/18 1:02 AM, Ryan Tandy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 11:59:06PM +0100, Lionel Debroux wrote: > > the vast majority of the ~170 reverse dependencies of libdb5.3 > > listed by `apt-cache rdepends libdb5.3` on sid will require (much) > > more work to get rid of that dependency, with impact on backwards > > compatibility... > > Among those packages are: > > [...] slapd > > The BDB-based backends are already deprecated upstream in favour of > LMDB, so when the time comes I'm happy to forcibly migrate the > remaining users on upgrade. At that point we can simply stop building > the module, possibly even in the same version where we force the > migration. > > There are still a few cases where LMDB may not be entirely > satisfactory: databases containing a lot of aliases, or workloads that > happen to cause a lot of fragmentation in LMDB. LMDB 1.0/OpenLDAP 2.5 > will have some improvements in these areas. (No ETA from upstream at > this time.) > > Hope this helps, or at least marks slapd as "minor" on your list. Good to know :) I don't use slapd myself, but I noticed it in the list of daemons which directly depend on libdb5.3.
Thanks, Lionel.