Bug#346209: [Pkg-db-devel] Bug#346209: Time to remove db2 entirely?

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Fri Jan 6 14:39:29 UTC 2006


* Nathanael Nerode:

> There are no packages in etch which depend on any of the db2 packages.
>
> In unstable, there are only htdig, qtstalker, and libdb2-ruby.  qtstalker
> is being converted to libdb4 upstream, and libdb2-ruby isn't actually used
> by anything else.  htdig appears to be unmaintained.

Can sarge users upgrade to etch without using libdb2-util?  It seems
so, because Berkeley DB 2 does not support logging (so there's no need
to run db2_recover prior to upgrading), and you can convert the
database files using db4.x_upgrade.




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