[Pkg-gambas-devel] gambas3-gb-db-sqlite2 dropped in ubuntu

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 24 April 2014 04:33, Ian Haywood <ian at haywood.id.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 6:10 PM, José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez
> <jredrejo at debian.org> wrote:
> 2014-04-23 9:40 GMT+02:00 Gianfranco Costamagna
>>> <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it
>>>>>  just a question, is this ubuntu delta
>>>>>  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/172213397/gambas.debdiff2
>>>>>  really needed?
>>>>>
>
> Here's the changelog where sqlite2 got dropped..
>
> gambas3 (3.1.1-2.2ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=low
>
>   * Drop libsqlite0-dev dependency.
>   * Drop gambas3-gb-db-sqlite2.
>  -- Dmitrijs Ledkovs <email address hidden>   Sat, 07 Dec 2013 16:38:54 +0000
>
> It's not obvious to me why: libsqlite0-dev is still in trusty.
> Gambas is a bit like Python: it has a rich standard library and users
> will expect everything to be available on all platforms. And the
> interpreter has a nasty habit of just dumping core when it can't find
> a file it wants.
> So, barring a licence issue (which won't be the case with SQLIte) we
> should package everything upstream provides IMHO.
>

No, nothing should use sqlite2. MOTU & Ubuntu team wish to drop it
completely out of the archive, now that asterisk 11 is available it is
feasible to do, but it did slip 14.04 trusty. I will remove sqlite2
completely from 14.10. If gambas fails to work without sqlite2, please
file bugs and we'll look into fixing this.

In ubuntu, unlike debian enabling all possible options is not a desirable goal.

I'd wish for sqlite2 to also be removed from Debian, but that's not my
call to make, hence i didn't propose that change back to debian.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.