Bug#147500: [pkg-firebird-general] Bug#147500: firebird2 on sparc

[Daniel Smolik]

Damyan Ivanov napsal(a):
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> - -=| Damyan Ivanov,  5.03.2007 21:08 |=-
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>>I'll see if I can make the same firebird.msg work on both little- and
>>big-endian machines. If not, I'll move it in an arch-dependent package
>>(but this will suck).
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> Having a look at the code, I think I'll move firebird.msg into an
> arch-dependent package. Fiddling with B-trees is not my favourite :) The
> mirror-space saving would be 50k per architecture, which is nothing and
> the packaging will not become much more complex than it is now.
> 
> Actually, the packaging of 1.5.4 (in experimental) and 2.0.1 (in NEW)
> put firebird.msg in firebirdX.Y-common, which is architecture-dependent.
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> This means that when firebrid1.5 and firebird2.0 enter sid, everything
> will be fine.
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> Thank you, Daniel for your help. There's nothing that can be done for
> firebird2 packages wrt sparc support, but Lenny will be more lucky. At
> some point I plan to provide backports, but this is still in the
> indeterminate future.

No problem, if you would like test some on SPARC let me know.

				Dan