Bug#1117120: Berkeley DB new upstream maintainer and release

I would still rather removed Berkeley DB from Debian than rely on a single maintainer
who seems to be knowledgeable in the databases, but still they are j

Ondrej
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Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
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A gentle nudge is always appreciated if I take a little longer to reply.

> On 17. 6. 2026, at 22:49, Daniel Markstedt <[email protected]> wrote:
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> in an interesting turn of events, libdb is seeing serious development activity now under a new upstream maintainer
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> there is also a new bugfix release v5.3.29 from April 23
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> https://github.com/berkeleydb/libdb/releases/tag/v5.3.29
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> the new maintainer has made this statement in the project readme:
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> This repository is two things at once:
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> 1. A historical archive of Berkeley DB — the complete published lineage of releases and official patches that could be recovered, preserved as tags and GitHub Releases for reference and git diff-able history.
> 2. A living fork under active development on the master branch, where new work (bug fixes, portability, performance, and new features) happens.
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