[Debian-med-packaging] planning (a) hsqldb transition(s)

[olivier.sallou at codeless.fr]

Le 4/30/12 1:09 AM, Rene Engelhard a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 04:31:31PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>>> so I'd like to upload that to unstable (and adapt libreoffice) if it happens.
>>>
>>> But this problem makes me ask
>>>
>>> Q1) does anyone of your programs using libhsqldb-java have the same problem? Do we need to wait for them to be patches
>>>     to upload 1.8.1.x?
>>>
>>> As you probably noticed, libhsqldb-java is 1.8.x while we have a
>>> libhsqldb2.0-java in experimental (and there's a 2.2.8 released, which I
>>> packaged some days ago and is ready to upload here now that I long neglected
>>> because I didn't care as OOo and LibO *do* need 1.8.x.)
I am not completly sure of this but I think v1.x and v2.x are not fully
compliant. This may cause issue with some applications.
>>>
>>> Q2) Would you agree that renaming libhsqldb-java to libhsqldb1.8-java would be
>>>     worthwile? We then can upload 2.2.8 as libhsqldb-java. This needs source
>>>     uploads of all the above packages, though.
>>>
>>> Q3) Does anyone want to overtake libhsqldb-java (2.x) then? I am only
>>>     interested in 1.8.x for OOo/LO.
>>>
>>> Q4) does anyone need 2.0 *and* 2.2 be different? Anything working with 2.0
>>>     and not 2.2? (Doubt that, but better safe than sorry) - in that case we
>>>     need to have libhsqldb1.8-java, libhsqldb2.0-java and the "new"
>>>     libhsqldb-java)
>> And noone except tillea (for debian-med)[1] answered here. pkg-java,
>> Sebastien?
> Two weeks later, and rougly one month before the freeze? PING? Can you
> (= pkg-java and Sebastien!) please answer?
>
> Or is this silent agreement? 
> (If so then please do not complain if a upgrade of libhsqldb-java from 1.8.0.10 to
> libhsqldb-java 2.2.8 breaks anything - you had advance warning.
> I *will* do this change - and ake LO use libhsqldb1.8-java *for sure* in the next weeks
> and libsqldb-java will become 2.2.8. And that upload will directly orphan the package.
> UNLESS you object)
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene
>
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