Hi, On 01-10-2025 22:29, Ondřej Surý wrote:
I would like to open a discussion on whether we can remove src:db5.3 from Debian. (Or at least cut down the list of the downstream packages using it...)
This discussion was started before, I think the comments are still valid: see bug 987013 [1]. We also have a transition tracker [2].
This list of Depends isn't actually that horrible (see below), so I can probably walk this through by hand and identify what actually matters... I think that most of the software includes BDB for legacy reasons.
Most importantly, we'd need an upgrade path, probably in each piece of software that depends on it, for users that have their data in BDB now. Somebody needs to do the work.
Paul [1] https://bugs.debian.org/987013 [2] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/db5.3-rm.html
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