On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:30:37AM -0400, Ben Cotton wrote: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Libdb_deprecated > > == Summary == > This change should inform maintainers and developers about effort to > remove libdb in future. > > == Owner == > * Name: [[User:fjanus|Filip Januš]] > * Email: fjanus@xxxxxxxxxx > > > == Detailed Description == > We would like to remove libdb from Fedora in future, because > BerkeleyDB 6.x has a more restrictive license than the previous > versions (AGPLv3 vs. LGPLv2) and due many projects can't use it. > Nowadays Fedora uses the old version (5.3.28) and we can't update to > newer. Due to many projects have libdb dependency, we propose few > steps to complete removal. First step would mark libdb as deprecated > package in Fedora 33. Next steps in Fedora 35 would provide converting > tool for existing databases and mark libdb as orphaned. Is there a way to read old database files? libguestfs uses libdb (actually utils like db_dump) in order to read old RPM databases from old guests. Since these old guests never go away we'd like to continue to support them. (And before anyone mentions librpm, that just moves the problem around.) BTW your list of dependencies didn't include libguestfs because the dependency is indirect (via libdb-utils), so you probably missed other packages as well. Also I'm unclear why packaging BDB 6 is a problem. What's wrong with AGPLv3? Still free software surely? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
