[pkg-firebird-general] Server packages for Firebird 2.5

[marius popa]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> wrote:
> Last weekend I started work on packaging Firebird 2.5 (alpha1).
>
> Firebird 2.5 has the new "SuperClassic" flavour that should be fine
> with all use cases - SMP or not. I think it also has a page cache that
> is shared across connections so it looks definitely better than both
> -super and -classic in all regards[1]. I wonder if there is any reason
> to provide the -super and -classic packages in their current meaning.
>
>    [1] except if there is a bug in one connection, it could bring the
>    whole server down. I think that this is not a very big problem. If
>    there is a bug that can take down one connection, it should be
>    fixed anyway as it can bring down any (thus all) connections.
>
> Providing only firebird2.5-server (containing the SuperClassic
> flavour) would simplify the packaging, not to mention it would cut the
> package build time in half (now both -super and -classic are built).
>
> Abandoning multiple -server packages would also elliminate the
> -server-common package. The final list of packages would be
>
>  firebird2.5-server
>  libfbclient2
>  libfbembed2.5
>  firebird2.5-common
>  firebird2.5-dev
>  firebird2.5-examples
>  firebird2.5-doc
>
> What do you think? If SuperClassic is here, would anyone miss the
> -super and -classic flavours?
I think we should have
Super with normal usage and super classic flavor
firebird-super will contain the super-classic too ?