[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#568089: Bug#568089: firebird2.1-super: gbak, isql-fb etc should be split out from the server

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Hamish Moffatt, Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:34:32PM +1100 |=-
> Package: firebird2.1-super
> Version: 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-6
> Severity: minor
> 
> gbak and isql-fb (and probably others) can operate with a remote server,

True for all client utilities.

> so they should be packaged in a client utilities package separate 
> from the server. Currently they are provided by the 
> firebird2.1-super package.

This was the case with the early firebird packages (firebird2-* and 
perhaps firebird1.5-*). There were firebirdX-utils-super and 
firebirdX-utils-classic.

The only gain I see (please correct me if you have another use case) 
is that a separate client package would allow installing only the 
client utilities when the server is not needed. This only gives saving 
on disk space. With the current packages the server component is not 
enabled by default. The savings are not particularly huge – half 
a megabyte for -classic; four megabytes for -super.

Maintaining dependencies/povides/conflicts, on the other hand, has 
proven to be a burden. While I can live with that, I'd like to be sure 
that it is really necessary :)
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