nss_db

[Mark R Bannister]

On Wed 14/12/11 13:44 , "Jared K. Smith" jsmith at fedoraproject.org sent:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Mark R Bannister <mark at proseconsulting.co.uk>
wrote:
> I note from this posting:
> >
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2011-July/153665.html>
> >
> > And this one:
> >
> >
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=2666d441c2d8107b1987b869714189af64b954c6
> > 
> > that the nss_db package has been deprecated, and that the new nss_db support in
> > glibc no longer uses Berkeley DB format.
> 
> I appreciate your concerns, but unfortunately most of the glibc
> development decisions happen in the upstream glibc community, and we
> in Fedora don't always have a lot of pull when it comes to those sorts
> of decisions.  Have you expressed your concerns directly to the glibc
> community?

I have now:

http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2011-12/msg00002.html

The more I think about this, the more I think it's a bad idea.

Best regards,
Mark.