Bug#251458: [Pkg-firebird-general] Bug#251458: Plan to get firebird, firebird2 and php4-interbase working in sarge.

[Damyan Ivanov]

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Hi, Remco,

I am thinking about the long term solution... and the best thing I've 
come is:

in libfirebird2-classic:

rename the library to libfirebird2-classic (with all the .0, .so.0's) 
and provide *hardlinks* named libfirebird2 (with all the .0 and .so.0's

in libfirebird2-super:

rename the library to libfirebird2-super (ditto for .0 and .so.0's)
and provide *hardlinks* named libfirebird2 (ditto)

libfirebird2-* should conflict with each other and provide libfirebird2.

This way, any package compiled against either of them will link against 
libfirebird2, not against libfb(client|embed)

Now that I write this, I am wondering, ain't it possible to rename the 
library to libfirebird2 in both packages? This way there will be no need 
of any ugly hardlinks.

All packages, depending on libfirebord2-* must be recompiled, of course, 
and made link with libfirebird2. These are firebird2-server-* and 
php4-interbase. All three of these are yours, so there's no need to 
bother other maintainers :-)

Also, php4-interbase can build-depend and depend just on libfirebird2 
(provided by -classic and -super).


What do you think?


dam

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