On Apr 15, Bastian Blank <[email protected]> wrote: > After this time we really should try to get rid of this package, which > even is NMU maintained since three years. I am not persuaded. I maintain libberkeleydb-perl and it works fine, it is mature software.
But even if we agree that all the libdb5.3 reverse dependencies must migrate to a different database then probably we will need to keep around db5.3-util (and its dependency libdb5.3) to allow dumping and restoring the databases. Not all software uses libdb as a cache which can just be regenerated and/or supports multiple databases and has internal dump/restore tools. And then all the packages currently depending on libdb5.3 will need to implement, or at least document, a transition strategy. Let me just mention postfix (easy), inn2 (possible but very resources intensive) and slapd (I am not sure, but it is critical and scary). -- ciao, Marco
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