bsddb module is deprecated and will be removed in future versions.
It should be noted that files created using anydbm.open(FILE) when bsddb was installed, will have chosen that backend and will now fail as follows: plasma python # etc-proposals Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/etc-proposals", line 11, in <module> from etcproposals.etcproposals_lib import Config, EtcProposals File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/etcproposals/etcproposals_lib.py", line 604, in <module> State = EtcProposalsState() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/etcproposals/etcproposals_lib.py", line 566, in __init__ shelve.Shelf.__init__(self, anydbm.open(STATEFILE, 'c')) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/anydbm.py", line 82, in open mod = __import__(result) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dbhash.py", line 7, in <module> import bsddb ImportError: No module named bsddb In this instance the file in question was not required, and can simply be removed (to be recreated with a different db module), however it may be best to note this somewhere...
Python itself is using bsddb: $ grep bsddb "/usr/lib64/python2.6/dbhash.py" """Provide a (g)dbm-compatible interface to bsddb.hashopen.""" import bsddb error = bsddb.error # Exported for anydbm return bsddb.hashopen(file, flag, mode) I'm running dev-lang/python-2.6.6-r2
python2.6 and the module both deprecated
