We're trying to reduce our dependence on Berkeley DB as much as possible given almost all of the slots are unmaintained upstream. We wrote a news item a little while ago while trying to purge unused slots which includes a lot of the rationale: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/2021-05-30-deprecate-old-bdb-slots/2021-05-30-deprecate-old-bdb-slots.en.txt?id=e72bcc8406e41ade2e186fe88e14586a6f4bb9b4.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9f43592098067bf91ccacbde089586f9db95dde3 commit 9f43592098067bf91ccacbde089586f9db95dde3 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-12-07 15:52:36 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-12-07 15:53:12 +0000 profiles: last-rite long-masked sys-libs/db slots Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/837629 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9b0f4da717eabd4de763d70edc69dd329b699f7d commit 9b0f4da717eabd4de763d70edc69dd329b699f7d Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-01-09 13:19:40 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-01-10 03:46:52 +0000 profiles: last-rite sys-libs/db:6.0 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/837629 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=3ea23f2e0c515d53aed9786954a41a800e53b639 commit 3ea23f2e0c515d53aed9786954a41a800e53b639 Author: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-01-13 16:51:26 +0000 Commit: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-01-13 16:52:13 +0000 profiles: drop sys-libs/db:6.0 last-rites for now I'm going to yank this for now because there's packages which poorly define which slots they use and it's not a very nice migration path for users as-is. Will revisit with a bugfest for berkdb consumers. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/837629 Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
