Thanks for looking into it. I am fine with removing db support as it is really unlikely someone wants to use it with a modern PHP.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 11:24 AM Frederik Schwan <fre...@archlinux.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 10:56:30AM +0100, Pierre Schmitz wrote: > > What is the latest news on this? I noticed PHP was patched for db-6 > > and later on db support was removed completely. Will the db/db5 > > package be dropped entirely? > > I removed db support where it seemed like a proper solution. For PHP I > couldn't > find any application in our repos nor in the (maintained) wild relying on it. > In general the goal from 2013 to deprecate db entirely still stands. Though > some applications don't > give us a choice. > I'll move the rebuilds to testing later today. I plan to keep them there for a > couple of days to check if I missed some use cases (e.g. for PHP). > > If all goes well, I'll work on bumping db to v18 afterwards. -- Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com
