[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#718272: BDB

[Micha Bailey]

Scott said:
one more thing: debian is discussion dropping libdb (the db the node,
but not the wallet, uses). That might force our hand as well: either
ship and support upstream's included libdb or drop the node and just
ship the wallet. libdb long-term security maintenance might be
challenging.



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Actually, it's the other way around. Since version 0.8, BDB is *only* used
for the wallet, not anything else. IIRC it was also used by the node
component until 0.8, where it was replaced with LevelDB. In fact, if you
configure with --disable-wallet, BDB isn't needed at all. But yes, as
someone mentioned, BDB is not backwards compatible. If you've been shipping
with any version newer than 4.8 (which is not recommended and throws a a
warning when configuring for this reason) you need to take responsibility
for ensuring that that version or newer remains available.
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