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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Remco Seesink, 16.08.2007 01:06 |=-

> My opinion:
Thanks for sharing!

> I think removing 1.5 in unstable / testing is best since keeping it
> around is giving a false promise about (security) support. You may
> want to wait a few weeks for people who use testing/unstable to
> read this and take precautions, and put the old packages and source
> somewhere for download / building so people can choose to install it
> themselves.

We have a nice Git repository for the brave :)
I may put packages somewhere, but this seems like a bad service to me.

> You could document it in the release notes.

This is planned, yes.

> It would be really nice
> to detect detect old database and give a warning with an abort option
> early in the install proces.

Uhm, the 2.0/2.1 packages use different database directories so no
conflict is possible *by default*.

Also, the only possible "conflict" is when newer firebird upgrades the
old databases' ODS (on-disk structure), making it impossible to use them
with older firebirds.

This perhaps also deserves a note in release notes, but a debconf notice
looks like an overkill to me. After all, there will be no transitional
packages so no automatic upgrade to the newer packages.

Perhaps I miss something so I am open for suggestions.
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