home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   linux.debian.bugs.dist      Ohh some weird Debian bug report thing      28,835 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 28,720 of 28,835   
   Noah Meyerhans to All   
   Bug#1119173: dovecot: Depends on db5.3   
   23 Feb 26 22:30:02   
   
   From: noahm@debian.org   
      
   Control: tags -1 + pending   
      
   On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 10:32:22PM +0100, Chris Hofstädtler wrote:   
   > your package depends or otherwise uses db5.3 ("Berkeley DB"). The   
   > upstream of db5.3 has ceased maintaining it, and it is also orphaned   
   > in Debian. See #987013 for discussion. Please update your package to   
   > remove any uses of db5.3 for forky.   
   > If necessary, provide an upgrade path in forky and remove usage in   
   > duke.   
      
   This actually seems to be a vestigial dependency.  I can find no   
   references to db.h in the source code, nor anything in the binary   
   packages that directly links against libdb-5.3.so.   
      
   noah   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca