On 2021-05-27 00:41, David Seifert wrote:
Furthermore, the Gentoo Base System Team has decided to consider sys-libs/db a deprecated database backend.
Uh? When did that happen? While there is no development happening anymore in old versions, 5.3 is feature complete, stable and a good choice for small setups like a postfix setup with the need for a few lookup tables. It's offering features you don't find anywhere else.
As long as 5.3 keeps building... there shouldn't be any need to kill it. It's not even blocking anything because it has no deps.
Other distros such as Fedora have started a gradual phase-out of Berkeley DB too, given Oracle's strong-armed approach to community input and their arguably hostile switch to the AGPLv3 (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Libdb_deprecated). Furthermore, Oracle is known to remove critical features from BDB in patch releases, such as the removal of the client-server architecture and the SQL API between 18.1.32 and 18.1.40.
This paragraph doesn't belong into a news item. -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5
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