[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 116944] Firebird-migration must happen only after user consent and advise to backup data prior to migration at 6.1

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116944

--- Comment #21 from Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel at mamane.lu> ---
(In reply to Florian Reisinger from comment #15)
> If you care to explain why
> 
> - removing a DB backend without deprication notice
> - keeping the HSQLDB data in the ODB file WITHOUT possibility to open it
> with an old version of LibreOffice
> - hushing the transition to the new database backend
> 
> is a good idea.

It is not, and will not happen. Please, there was some over-enthusiasm, things
got committed to master, they were discussed and the plan was established. Do
not take every commit to the master branch as a firm, well thought out, plan.

Let's stop excoriating this transitory situation and focus on the reasonable
plan.

> - Putting it in the 6.0 release notes is impossible - already released.
>   --> Mark it for removal in 6.1 with removal in 6.2 / 6.3

My current thought is: deprecation when Firebird is in good shape (cf the
tracker bug for that), and removal at least one major distro LTS cycle after
that.

>   --> New databases will be created with Firebird (by default?) in 6.1

_If_ the Firebird driver is in a good enough shape, which we have good hope it
will be.

> - Why keep the old data in the file?
>   --> Creating a new file with just Firebird data makes more sense as the
> end user is not able to recover the data!

Yes.

> - Why do we need to get rid of HSQLDB so quickly?

We don't.

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