Re: New project goal: Get rid of Berkeley DB (post jessie)
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 12:29:59PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 19 juin 2014 à 11:38 +0200, Ondřej Surý a écrit :
> > Debian Evolution Maintainers
> > <pkg-evolution-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > evolution-data-server
>
> I think this change is already underway upstream. Most evolution
> databases use SQLite now, but Berkeley DB support needs to be here in
> order to convert old user databases. As you would easily guess, this
> change is correlated with a huge drop in the occurrences of cache
> corruption.
>
> There are some remnants such as the certificates database. I don’t know
> really why, since they are supposed to be managed by libnss and this one
> has also migrated to SQLite.
NSS doesn't migrate on itself, it has to be handled by the application
code. (also note NSS uses dbm, not bdb)
Mike
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