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Re: apt-ftparchive alternatives

From	Ahmad Khalifa <ahmad@khalifa.ws>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.devel
Subject	Re: apt-ftparchive alternatives
Date	2025-11-09 21:50 +0100
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On 09/11/2025 15:59, David Kalnischkies wrote:
> Am Thu, Nov 06, 2025 at 09:09:26PM +0000, schrieb Ahmad Khalifa:
>> On 05/11/2025 15:00, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>>> But apt-ftparchive has the option to use BDB (= Berkeley DB) for caching
>>> and while I still believe it wouldn't be too hard to change to another
>>> DB (minus the probably hard part of vacillating a transition), I don't
>>> see it happen any time soon. At least I don't see why I should do it &
>>> so did nobody else in the last 12 years [0]  (also: #1119193).
>>
>> There were 3 attempts to move away from BDB in the last 11 months, but all
>> failed unfortunately.
> 
> None of those reached deity@.d.o or any other channel I would frequent,
> so it is hard to count attempts that might or might not have happened
> on a private hard drive and never saw the light of day.
> 
> So, lets say nobody announced in the last 12 years to have worked on it,
> if that makes it more clear.

Merge requests are public, that counts as seeing the light of day.

My main point was to say that it would be nice to see apt-fa using a 
cache db that can be administered by a human being for corner cases and 
dealing with issues. Same for reprepro.

-- 
Regards,
Ahmad

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