[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#340712: This is serious

[Damyan Ivanov]

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severity 340712 serious
thanks

So, reading http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt I've found (in
3.) that conffiles MUST be plain text.

firebird2-server-common has one conffile:
/var/lib/firebird2/system/security.fdb. This is a regular firebird
database and is not plain text. This is why I bump the severity.

Managing it as a conffile really makes no sense, as Hamish noted.

I plan to make it behave as a configuration file. A nice side effect
will be elimination of a lintian warning (now overridden) about non-/etc
conffile.

On first install it should be copied from some example directory.

On upgrade:
 - if there are no changes in the database schema, required by the new
version, do nothing
 - if there are changes, required for the new version, save a backup and
upgrade.

On cross-generations downgrade:
 - issue a warning and let admin do the rest by hand.



I am wondering if there is some benefit of moving security.fdb in
/etc/firebird...


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dam
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