Comment 3 for bug 708129

Devishree: I use official Ubuntu Universe repositories, PPAs and the new single packages published at the download page of openerp.com.

If I install the package from openerp.com download page on an Ubuntu client machine that already have openerp-client_5-XXX installed it will be replaced by the package openerp-client_6-xxx. But if we reflect the new version 6 (client/server/web) in the nameing eg openerp-client6_6-xxx instead of openerp-client_6-xxx it will be possible to install both openerp-client and openerp-client6 at the same time.

We can use the nameing of Drupal-packages as a parallell: Drupal5 and Drupal6 (and soon Drupal7) are separate series of Drupal versions that can live alongside in the repositories and can be installed on the same server. This is important in many cases for the migration work, that in some cases can take years. The whole world can't migrate from Drupal5 to Drupal6 at the same time nor from Drupal6 to Drupal7. I believe its the same for OpenERP-users. There will be a lot of OpenERP5 installations along side OpenERP6 and in the future OpenERP7. With a little different nameing policy the life for many system administrators will be much easier.

Xrg: Is this one client that can handle both version 5 and version 6 servers? Yes I think it would be nice with a official PPA for both openerp5 and openerp6 packages!