From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0671A1382C5 for ; Fri, 28 May 2021 13:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DDDCE0A98; Fri, 28 May 2021 13:13:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC64CE0A95 for ; Fri, 28 May 2021 13:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: From: Thomas Deutschmann Organization: Gentoo Linux Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 15:13:41 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="o9omvBfSG0hB2cGtGUUFsOu6E3vCPRyo9" X-Archives-Salt: 85e5d438-2bac-4ac1-8116-abf5b41ce0e0 X-Archives-Hash: 6d84db4183adfcf0c13deb4f611f76e8 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --o9omvBfSG0hB2cGtGUUFsOu6E3vCPRyo9 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="iT8BmPdhioUixFLiSnl9CqHQyDrthj0GQ"; protected-headers="v1" From: Thomas Deutschmann To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal References: In-Reply-To: --iT8BmPdhioUixFLiSnl9CqHQyDrthj0GQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 anymore in old versions, 5.3 is feature complete, stable and a good=20 choice for small setups like a postfix setup with the need for a few=20 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. --=20 Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer fpr: C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5 --iT8BmPdhioUixFLiSnl9CqHQyDrthj0GQ-- --o9omvBfSG0hB2cGtGUUFsOu6E3vCPRyo9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="OpenPGP_signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="OpenPGP_signature" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- wsB5BAABCAAjFiEEExKRzo+LDXJgXHuURObr3Jv2BVkFAmCw7IUFAwAAAAAACgkQRObr3Jv2BVlK rwgAlERdDUsaNoL4BESE24pIR7F5YQekU8Pna39h0qQf4iG22brbCAWLJNIVVY58laVOcdmb+kuw GOq6AFSRRPp2SSxR/sdhoyRUADt906pEIYDI9ObOBMTs3lAoBrixfYeddPi9xUqah0QOlBHBlYaG 6ScimyJ7MKfQ1HQi/5cEvsqRxLv+6rkMmL+rEa1wIrmQibQGHt5ucpYYj5fkJ+W86rDEVBCWfj2q iYvbt4ZsqbgzZ5s/dgkMbD2ck4zEV8+o9oxhbRp8RcJ7sxG1eiulPYvMB7pfowyZfryb+UDNnA5V tqG3KRuEQvGKMlAxeaZfQhIiwEgCBte3c3gKKMV2zg== =fL7w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --o9omvBfSG0hB2cGtGUUFsOu6E3vCPRyo9--