On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 01:53:54PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>...
> I guess you can kill both birds with one stone if you go for a "write
> libdb-api-compatibility layer for your favorite other db", but that
> wouldn't really be a Debian task anymore. Without even thinking a split-
> second about the feasibility of this, that might be the more realistic
> way of deprecating libdb as I would imagine that most tools still using
> it aren't using it because its so great, but because the code exists and
> nobody feels like changing it.
>...
This would only be sufficient for the easy cases where the data stored
is temporary or cached and can be thrown away.
> Best regards
>
> David Kalnischkies
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Adrian
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