Hi Thomas, On Fri, 28 May 2021 15:13:41 +0200 Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
>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? We've discussed this at length in #gentoo-base and nobody complained. > 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. Well, it's abandoned by upstream so potential bugs will never get fixed officially. Perhaps if some distros decide to continue maintenance of the source code we can consider keeping the package but I don't see that happen... >> 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. I think this should belong into the news item in order to explain our rationale behind this decision. Kind regards -- Lars Wendler Gentoo package maintainer GPG: 21CC CF02 4586 0A07 ED93 9F68 498F E765 960E 9B39
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