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

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

> Two weeks later, and rougly one month before the freeze? PING? Can you
> (= pkg-java and Sebastien!) please answer?

Now - *8* months later (yes, I let it slip but it was not very likely
to fit the freeze anyway with the non-reaction of the r-dep maintainers) -
we are long inside the freeze - so another Debian release with a completely
obosolete "default" libhsqldb-java :/
(And http://bugs.debian.org/670902 got wheezy-ignore.)

But we should fix it asap in jeesie.

> 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.

This is the LAST ping. When there will be no reply (well, -med and
Sebastien[1] answered, this targets -java..) I *will* take this as a
silent agreement and do it immediately when the freeze ends
(and libreoffice will directly switch to libhsqldb1.8.0-java).

(See http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2012/04/msg00408.html and it's
References for the context, I _am not_ going to cut'n'paste it here again.)

> 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.

I seem to be too nice (or lazy) and actually didn't do it.

First part of this is now done, though:
- http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hsqldb/news/20130107T011735Z.html
- hsqldb1.8.0 is in NEW:
  http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/hsqldb1.8.0_1.8.0.10-15.html

If hsqldb1.8.0 won't get accepted I still can use internal hsqldb
in LibreOffice, so...
If one of you still need it, too fine. Just change your packages :)
That way is not ideal, but better than carrying oround this
hsqldb mess longer without a reply from the r-dep maintainers.)

> And that upload will directly orphan the package.

This isn't yet done, but it will be done when this is in unstable.

Regards,

Rene

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2012/04/msg00410.html