[New-bugs-announce] [issue17477] update the bsddb module do build with db 5.x versions

[Matthias Klose]

New submission from Matthias Klose:

the bsddb module is still supported in 2.7, however only builds using db versions up to 4.8, which at least some Linux distributions ship anymore.  Proposing to update the bsddb module to pybsddb 5.3.0, which supports to build using db up to 5.3.0.

The downside is that this pybsddb version drops support to build using db 4.1 and 4.2 (requires db 4.3 as a minimum). However checking at least seven year old Ubuntu 6.10 (Hardy Heron) reveals that 4.3 is already supported by this version.

I'd like to have some input/tests how the tests do go with this patch with different db versions. please report test results into this issue.

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assignee: doko
components: Build
messages: 184598
nosy: doko
priority: high
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: update the bsddb module do build with db 5.x versions
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.7

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