Bug#251458: [Pkg-firebird-general] Re: Bug#251458: firebird: remote vulnerability

[Damyan Ivanov]

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Hi, Remco and all,

My thoughts:

Remco Seesink wrote:
> Well, frankly I am not the biggest supporter of keeping them both so I
> might not know the comprehensive list of reasons, but this is what I
> know:
> 1. When migrating to 1.5 you should backup with the old server and
>    restore with the new. This is needed when ODS (On Disk Structure)
>    changes are in the database format.

This is not required. Newer servers can work with older databases. A 
file backup of the database is recommended just in case, but otherwise 
there should be no problems.

> 2. Not all applications will work out of the box from 1.0.x moving to
>    1.5.x

Do you have in mind some example incompatibility? I don't think there is 
something fatal.

> I suggest people on pkg-firebird-general knowing more than I do to step
> forward. If it was up to me I would remove firebird 1.0.3 of the archive
> and put them on http://firebird.debian.net.

I second this. 1.0.x is obsolete (according to the developers), but 
putting it somewhere just in case is very good.

> libfirebird2-* would only
> need to provide libfirebird and all existing packages should be happy
> without recompile. libgds.so.0 is symlinked to fbclient.so.0. This is
> tested with php4-interbase and a not packaged binary (ibaccess)

Yes, this should work. (famous last words)

> If this would happen I am not so sure about the usefulness of the
> firebird2 naming.

Maybe we can rename it to firebird later, but I am not sure what 
reflections a rename will have right now, before sarge release.


Thanks,
dam

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