Re: libdbd-sqlite-perl and libdbd-sqlite2-perl

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:46:53PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:

 > > As we finally have both libdbd-sqlite-perl and libdbd-sqlite2-perl
 > > packages in the archive it should now be possible to sort out the
 > > mess that these packages have got into (caused mainly by upstream
 > > it seems).
 > 
 > libdbd-sqlite-perl (1:1.08-1) experimental; urgency=low
 > 
 >   * New upstream release
 >   * Package is once again sqlite3 compatible. Read NEWS.Debian for further
 >     info.

 Reviewing libdbd-sqlite-perl we are back to square one.

 Summary:

    libdbd-sqlite-perl does not exist in stable

    libdbd-sqlite-perl in testing is 0.29 (SQLite 2)

    libdbd-sqlite-perl in unstable is 0.33 (SQLite 2)

    libdbd-sqlite-perl in experimental is 1.08 (SQLite 3)

    libdbd-sqlite-perl (<< 1) provides DBD::SQLite (SQLite 2)

    libdbd-sqlite-perl (>> 1) provides DBD::SQLite (SQLite 3)

    libdbd-sqlite-perl (>> 1) can't read SQLite 2 files

 I hope everyone sees the fsck up now.

 What we need is:

    libdbd-sqlite-perl -> SQLite 2, provides DBD::SQLite

    libdbd-sqlite2-perl -> SQLite 2, provides DBD::SQLite2 (per upstream)

    libdbd-sqlite3-perl -> SQLite 3, provides DBD::SQLite (per upstream)

 In this way existing scripts won't break silently after 'apt-get
 upgrade' and people have a chance to plan ahead.  It's butt-ugly, but
 go yell at upstream for that.

 Objections?

-- 
Marcelo