[pkg-firebird-general] [long] firebird 2.0 - and now what?

[Francesco Paolo Lovergine]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 09:50:47AM +0200, Kai B?sler wrote:
> Hi Damyan,
> 
> first let me thank you for doing this great work, packaging firebird  
> for debian. I really appreciate your effort.
> 
> Your plan to have 1.5/2.0 in etch and 2.0 only in etch+1 sounds  
> reasonable to me. I will always move to the current version, if i can  
> upgrade from one ODS to another with a simple gbak -T(ransportable).
> 
> I don't like the idea of installing both versions at the same time,  
> because both want to bind to port 3050/tcp by default, and i don't  
> want to go through the hassle of reconfiguring one (and remembering  
> which version runs on which port). I think both versions should be  
> mutually exclusive.
> 
> Maybe we can help users to migrate with a little shellscript which  
> automates the backup/restore process?
> 
> Kai
> 
> PS: english is not my native language, please be tolerant.
> 

Mmm, doing that at upgrade time could be _very_ error prone, potentially. 
I personally avoid non-minimal changes to user data. A detailed upgrade
documentation is safer in many cases. A wrong assumption or a bug in 
an upgrade script could be extremely dangerous.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine