- Package:
- amavisd-new
- Source:
- amavisd-new
- Submitter:
- Bastian Germann
- Date:
- 2026-08-24 22:43:02 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Please get rid of libberkeleydb-perl which backs the monitoring. It can be dropped or replaced by zmq. The plan is to get rid of the transitive dependency libdb5.3 eventually. See blocked bug.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> writes: Is zmq a drop in replacement? Or does it require coding changes? I see upstream instructions seem to recommend the use of libzmq3-dev, so maybe all that needs to happen is replace libberkeleydb-perl with libzmq3-dev in debian/control, and everything will work as before? https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis My perl know-how is incredibly non-existant, not looked at perl code in some time.
The problem is that the zmq requirements cannot be met in Debian currently. That is why I have created https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/-/merge_requests/141