On 17/06/11 03:04, Stéphane Gaudreault wrote:

The bsddb module in python2 has been deprecated since python 2.6 and it support only Berkeley db version from 4.0 thru 4.7 [1]. A simple patch allowed our python package to offer a minimal support for existing application using db 5.0 and 5.1. This patch as been rejected upstream as db extension is now maintained as a third party package [2][3]. Other majors distributions are not offering this module in their python2 packages.

In db 5.2 there are lots of (small) changes in the C API [4] (mostly in the replication manager API) . The patching work required to integrate this version in our package is no longer trivial and there is no upstream support. Hence, I propose to drop this extension from our python2 pkg. We have a python-bsddb in [community] in which we could add python2 support (as a split pkg) to offer a much more complete db support for our python2 users [5]. Support for db 5.2 in python-bsddb was added yesterday in the mercurial repository of python-bsddb.

Berkeley DB is not included in the python3 stdlib, so python 3 is not affected by this change.

Any objections to do this ?

Regards,

Stéphane

[1] http://docs.python.org/library/bsddb.html [2] http://bugs.python.org/issue11817 [3] http://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm [4]http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html/installation/upgrade_52_to... [5] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/python-bsddb/

I agree with this change. Allan