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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 09:56:39 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:

> Right now he have the following situation ragarding hsqldb in Debian
>  - "hsqldb" is 1.8.x, long obsolete version but still needed by LO
>  - hsqldb2.0 in experimental (RM bug #670885 filed, should be removed in
>    favour of hsqldb2.2)
>  - hsqldb2.2 in experimental (well, at the time of this writing in NEW)
>    which is upstreams supported version.
> 
> I'd like to switch that and make hsqldb make build the current one
> and build a libhsqldb1.8-java out of a hsqldb1.8.
> 
> In February, I already asked all maintainers of hsqldb-using packages
> whether they would be OK[1], so so far, regardless of two pings ([2],[3])
> noone except Andreas Tille for debian-med answered that it would be OK for
> him and breakages could be fixed quickly.
> 
> LO will obviously need a source upload to update its (build)-dependends
> but otherwise the other packages don't need changes. Unfortunately
> the new libhsqldb-java must conflict against libreoffice-base because
> of the file format issue...
> 
> Dear RT, can I go on with this transition?
> 
So I didn't see anywhere in this bug report a list of binary packages
that go away, and binary packages that replace them, and a description
of how we figure out which packages are affected / need a rebuild / need
a source upload.  What did I miss?

Cheers,
Julien

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