[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#415668: Bug#415668: NMU

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Mon Sep 7 08:38:26 UTC 2009


On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:41:06PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> It would be best if you make sure the ports appear in upstream CVS 
> first.

This is your job as maintainer.

>        Otherwise once they implement them with a different 
> implementation IDs, the databases created with "official" firebird 
> engine will not be openable on Debian on the same architecture and 
> vice versa.

Well, as database admin I assume that I have to dump and load a database
anyway while moving them to another machine.

> How different are s390 and s390x? Are the pointer sizes different or 
> native integers or alignment rules? Is the s390x port enough for 
> Debian?

s390x is the 64bit variant of 31bit s390. Debian still only supports
s390.

Bastian

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