Bug 1756078 - Please provide EPEL8 package
Summary: Please provide EPEL8 package
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libdb4
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Matej Mužila
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 1755961
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-09-26 17:30 UTC by Robert-André Mauchin 🐧
Modified: 2019-10-05 13:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-10-05 13:47:57 UTC
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Description Robert-André Mauchin 🐧 2019-09-26 17:30:58 UTC 
I've been asked to package clementine for EPEL8, as such I need this dependency in EPEL8. Thanks.
Comment 1 Matej Mužila 2019-09-30 11:23:14 UTC 
libdb4 is outdated, unsupported by upstream and its maintenance is not trivial. It also bundles crypto algorithms (AES) and it is possible security risk.

In my opinion libdb4 should be replaced by an alternative (libdb) and removed from fedora too.

libdb4-devel is needed as a dependency for libqxt-qt5 but there is a possibility to replace it by libdb-devel. I tried to (scratch)build libqxt-qt5 with libdb-devel as a dependency and the build passed [1]. I haven't tested it for functionality. Try to ask libqxt-qt5 maintainer if it would be possible to switch to libdb.

Considering this I'm not going to package libdb4 for epel8. At least for now. 

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[1] https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=37965790
Comment 2 Robert-André Mauchin 🐧 2019-10-05 13:47:57 UTC 
Thanks, libqxt-qt5 was build with libdb.
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