[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#549062: Bug#549062: Bug#549062: firebird 2.0 pending obsoletion

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| marius adrian popa, Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:58:08PM +0300 |=-
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:
> > I intent to phase firebird2.0 out of the archive. firebird2.5 is 
> > to be released soon, and having three versions in squeeze is too 
> > much. Even in 2.5 doesn't make it to squeeze, the current 
> > recommended version is 2.1, which makes it pointless to support 
> > for another release cycle.
> I agree 2.5 RC1 is on the way and i feel the urge to use it already

Yeah, 2.5 has some niceties I want to try too. The problem is that 
packages need more work:

 - [critical] write debian/copyright
 - test the -superclassic package
 - put the fbtrace stuff somewhere (different package? -*server 
   packages? is it different when built for 
   classic/super/superclassic?)

> I didn't touched firebird 2.0 anymore for years

I still use it on servers, where using 'stable' is a priority. This 
doesn't mean the package can't be dropped from unstable/testing, 
though, which is exactly what I intent to do.

> > Presently, the following packages build-depend on firebird2.0-dev:
> >
> >  - flamerobin (uploaded today with B-D of firebird2.1-dev)
> No problem here :)

You. Hit the mirrors tonight, so this one is [checked] :)

> >  - gambas2
> this should be asked on the gambas maintainers but is just an api bump
> >  - gnugk
> don't know here we should ask maintainer
> >  - python-kinterbasdb
> Here anyway the recomended version is the one 3.3.0 from
> firebirdsql.org with 2.1 so it's OK to put 2.1 in required
> >  - qt4-x11
> I only buildeded from source the qt but i use it only with firebird
> 2.1 so i vote that it's Ok

I still hope to be able to get 2.5 ready for unstable in a reasonable 
time frame. Changing build-dependencies in four packages can easily 
take month or two, and making the maintainers do it twice is not very 
polite.

-- 
dam
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