[pkg-firebird-general] 2.0 plans (no packages, yet)

[Damyan Ivanov]

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Hi,

I'd like to share my current plans for 2.0 and hear our comments.

Firs, the bad news. For various reasons, I very much doubt I'll be able
to produce any production-quality packages this year.

Now the plans.

* Unification of -server and -utils packages.
I plan to provide firebird2.0-super and firebird2.0-classic packages,
containing both the server binary and accompanying files plus the usual
utilities - gbak, gfix etc.

Cons
====
The possibility to install only utils is gone. This is not so bad,
upstream does not offer it anyway. The only thing one loses is about 2MB
of disk space. The server will come disabled by default (no surprises).

Pros
====
 - packaging gets closer to upstream distribution - less surprises for
debian users that are used to install FB by hand.
 - simplified packaging - two packages less to cater after
 - simplifies co-installability of different firebird versions

I guess that having minimal installation is mostly important for
embedded (PDA, etc) users[1]. However, embedded installations are not
expected to need -utils (gbak etc) but only the library (that is used by
some embedded application) plus the supporting firebird.msg (-common).

[1] which currently are not supported, but this will change - arm and
mips will get support sooner or later.

the final package set would be (for 2.0):
firebird2.0-super
firebird2.0-classic
firebird2.0-server-common (security database, support scripts)
firebird-utils
libfbclient2
libfbembed2
firebird2.0-common (firebird.msg)
firebird-dev (.h files etc)
firebird2.0-examples

The only conflict between those will be that firebird2.0-super and
firebird2.0-classic will conflict with each other. I thing the
possibility to co-install -super and -classic is not that useful to be
worth all the trouble.

firebird-utils package contains symlinks and a wrapper script that
causes "FB_VER=x.y gbak" to actually invoke /usr/lib/firebird/x.y/gbak,
/usr/bin/gbak defaulting to the highest installed version.


Please share your thoughts, ideas, concerns.


Happy holidays for all who celebrate.
	dam
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