Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal

2021-05-28 Thread Lars Wendler
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal

2021-05-28 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal

2021-05-27 Thread David Seifert
On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 16:09 -0700, Patrick McLean wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2021 00:41:23 +0200 > David Seifert wrote: > > > The old Berkeley DB slots need to go at this point. The Base Project > > has > > decided to consider BDB a deprecated database backend, and we'll > > slowly > > be working

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal

2021-05-26 Thread Patrick McLean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 27 May 2021 00:41:23 +0200 David Seifert wrote: > The old Berkeley DB slots need to go at this point. The Base Project has > decided to consider BDB a deprecated database backend, and we'll slowly > be working towards a (possibly) BDB-free

[gentoo-dev] News item: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal

2021-05-26 Thread David Seifert
The old Berkeley DB slots need to go at this point. The Base Project has decided to consider BDB a deprecated database backend, and we'll slowly be working towards a (possibly) BDB-free ::gentoo some time in the long- term future. * * * Title: sys-libs/db old SLOT removal Author: David Seifert