major libgda and libgnomedb upgrade notice

[Hans de Goede]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 12:15 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>> Also since we seem to be getting personal: I don't find your attitude 
>> very helpfull or constructive.
> What do find non-constructive?
> 

Afaik I've stated nowhere in all my previous mails on this subject that 
I would move on no matter what, yet you keep writing mails as if I've 
stated that this upgrade is going in even it makes other packages fail. 
This is wrong and unfair asumption on your side, which makes the wording 
of your mails unpleasant, which I find non-constructive.

 > Initially I said: You should provide a compat-package.
 >
 > In your reply you provided sufficent evidence not having understood the
 > rationale behind all this. Therefore I could not avoid to become more
 > direct.
 >

As I already said, I'm currently inventorying what packages besides 
gnumeric depend on libgda/gnomedb, if those packages can be updated 
simultaneously then there is _no_ need for a compat package. If they 
can't be updated or there are many dependencies making coordination 
hard, then and _only_ then it is time to think about alternative 
solution (which will most likely be forking of a new package called 
libgda2 and not a compat package).

IOW I don't have to provide a compat-package to avoid breakage yet you 
keep repeating that I must provide a compat-package and instead of 
discussing this on its technical merits you choose to make your point by 
using unpleasant wording, which isn't helping your case (at all).

Anyways I've spend more then enough time on this fruitless discussion. 
I'll do my very best to coordinate this with other packagers and to 
avoid any breakage, I cannot do more then that.

Regards,

Hans