[Tts-project] Bug#1119211: Bug#1119211: freespeech: Depends on db5.3

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Dmitry Shachnev, le mer. 19 nov. 2025 16:22:41 +0300, a ecrit:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 11:14:35PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hello Igor,
> > 
> > Do you remember why you introduced patch
> > 
> > patches/0004-Berkeley-DB-instead-of-GDBM.patch
> > 
> > to make freespeech use libdb instead of libgdbm?
> > 
> > I guess we'll have to remove that patch.
> 
> I asked Igor about it when sponsoring the package. His reply was:
> 
> "I replaced it with Berkeley DB a long time ago. I don't remember my exact
> reasons. I probably wasn't thinking of just Debian or even just Linux.
> I think Berkeley DB is somewhat more ubiquitous and, besides, claims to have
> portable binary data files."

Ok, thanks for the info! I migrated the package into using gdbm.

Samuel