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

[marius adrian popa]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: firebird2.0
> Version: 2.0.5.13206-0.ds2-4
> Severity: serious
>
> 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 20 for another release cycle.
I agree 2.5 RC1 is on the way and i feel the urge to use it already
I didn't touched firebird 2.0 anymore for years

>
> I am filing the bug to let people know about the intention.
>
> Also, some bugs shall be filed against packages build-depending on
> firebird2.0-dev, to make them build-depend on firebird2.1-dev or even
> firebird2.5-dev (if it is available at the time). Blocking this bug on them
> will help keeping the progress under control.
>
> Presently, the following packages build-depend on firebird2.0-dev:
>
>  - flamerobin (uploaded today with B-D of firebird2.1-dev)
No problem here :)
>  - 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
>
>
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