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Re: CALM: error while merging uploaded packages for db (obsoleting db4.8)
On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 11:13 +0200, Dr. Volker Zell wrote:
> On 19.08.2016 23:20, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > I would ask you to hold off on 6.x. The licence change to AGPLv3+
> > is incompatible with a number of packages which use libdb, and
> > therefore both Fedora and Debian have refrained from upgrading past
> > the latest 5.3 revisions for legal reasons.
> >
> > I understand this may put you in an uncomfortable position given
> > your employer, but it is unfortunately necessary.
>
> OK to upgrade to latest 5.3.28 ?
> http://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/berkeleydb/html/changelog
> _5_3.html
Yes, please. While you are at it, could you please add enable some
sqlite features in libdb_sql which are needed by libgda:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/libdb.git/tree/libdb.spec#n223
--
Yaakov