Hello Oswald,

Carlos Henrique Lima Melara <[email protected]> wrote on 14/01/2026 at 
04:17:39+0100:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 10:28:59PM +0100, Chris Hofstädtler wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It seems to have been dealt with in freebsd [1] and arch [2] by setting
> ac_cv_berkdb4=no.
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
> [1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=279146
> [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/isync/-/issues/2

Does this way of handling the db5.3 obsolescence seem relevant to you?

Bests,
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PEB

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