[pkg-firebird-general] Considering removal of firebird 1.5 from Debian

[Damyan Ivanov]

Hi,

I am considering removing firebird 1.5 from Debian (unstable and
testing) all together.

For:
* 1.5 is not supported upstream so there's absolutely no way to maintain
it for yet another release. See #432753 why.

Against:
* There will be no nice-and-easy upgrade path for 1.5 users. They will
have to prepare their databases according to some docs, then remove
firebird 1.5 (package is actually firebird2-*) and install the current
Firebird, test, maybe downgrade and do more corrections etc. I can
prepare a wiki page containing the information from upstream upgrade
docs. A link to that wiki would have to go in the release notes.

Also, I hope firebrid2.1 will be stable enough for Lenny so firebid2.0
can be dropped too.

What do you thing about all this?
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