[Pkg-firebird-general] firebird 1 removed from sarge, ibwebadmin is in.

[Grzegorz B. Prokopski]

W li=B6cie z sob, 28-08-2004, godz. 17:14, Remco Seesink pisze:=20
> Hi all,
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> Good news: ibwebadmin made it into sarge.
>=20
> Bad news:
> I just noticed firebird 1 got removed from sarge. I am not sure what to=
 do
> with php4-interbase. Currently the libraries needed to build the curren=
t
> version are no longer available.

Will the current version run with fb2?

If yes, it most probably could stay as it is now.

After all firebird-dev is still part of Debian/unstable and satysfying
build-depends is not requirement for package to be in testing.

> If I built it against firebird2 it should link against fbclient.so but =
that
> would mean it is no longer compatible with firebird 1 (which can be mad=
e
> available somewhere else for sarge)
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> Anybody any ideas how to solve this?

Would it be possible to make it like that?
	Build-depend: firebird-dev | firebird2-dev

Then you could build package against firebird-dev but somebody later
could rebuild it within testing with firebird2-dev.  This is however
suboptimal because the resulting package will not have the right
depends: on fb1 or fb2 depending on which version it was build with.


Acutally *I* think we could just drop support for firebird1 as fb2 is=20
*the firebird* in Sarge.  We should just make sure that if somebody
installs php4-interbase compiled against fb2 - he will also get the
libraries from fb2 even if he had fb1 installed.

If you decide to upload a package, please give it clear changelog
entry, keep the changes as minimal as possible, and surely also visit
http://www.wolffelaar.nl/~sarge/ to add information whether/why the new
version of php4-interbase package should be included in Sarge.

HTH

				Grzegorz B. Prokopski

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