#1119188 gridengine: Depends on db5.3

Package:
src:gridengine
Source:
src:gridengine
Submitter:
Chris Hofstädtler
Date:
2026-09-07 08:57:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1119188#5
Date:
2025-10-27 21:41:08 UTC
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To:
Dear Maintainer,

your package depends or otherwise uses db5.3 ("Berkeley DB"). The
upstream of db5.3 has ceased maintaining it, and it is also orphaned
in Debian. See #987013 for discussion. Please update your package to
remove any uses of db5.3 for forky.
If necessary, provide an upgrade path in forky and remove usage in
duke.

Chris
#1119188#12
Date:
2026-09-07 08:55:55 UTC
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Grid Engine has a classic (flatfile) spooling backend that is currently
already ative as well. Only having it will force users who have used libdb
spooling to recreate their clusters:

1. Compile with: aimk -spool-classic
2. Set bootstrap file ($SGE_ROOT/$SGE_CELL/common/bootstrap):
   spooling_method    classic
   spooling_lib       libspoolc
   spooling_params    ...