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

[Damyan Ivanov]

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?

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