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

[Damyan Ivanov]

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Remco Seesink wrote:
>>>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.
> 
> That could be true. I noticed ibconsole from IB6 doesn't work well with
> firebird 1.5. It is complaining the version is to *old*.
> 
> Also firebird 1.5 is more strict with sql and can trigger bugs
> not noticed in 1.0.x. Of course this is minor when developing, but can
> be a pain for people just deploying. An example I ran into: doing an order
> by in a select count(*) query is no longer allowed. (and shouldn't be)
> 
> There may be other issues.

You're right.
That's why putting 1.0.3 on debian.net is a good idea. Maybe a note (and 
security warning) in README.Debian of 1.5.x packages could be useful to 
point the desperate to 1.0.3 packages...

I for one plan to run our production server with 1.0.3 for some time... :-)



Thanks,
dam

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