[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#749619: upgrading libreoffice creates a new "firebird" system user

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

For the record:

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:28:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The user is created through the following dependency chain:
> 
> libreoffice -> libreoffice-base
> libreoffice-base -> libreoffice-base-drivers
> libreoffice-base-drivers recommends libreoffice-sdbc-firebird
> 
>     (I'm not sure why this relationship, but I'm far from an expert
>     on the internals of Libreoffice or the backwards compatibility
>     constraints here.)

firebird is to become the standard embedded database in LO. But it's not
yet. It's recommended thus it's not a hard depends but people might want to
use it given it has no Java dependency. But it has (as we see) some more
Depends, so I didn't want to force it directly on anybody with it being in
-base-drivers directly or with a hard Depends.

[ Actually -sdbc-hsqldb is also only Recommended for a similar/the opposite
reason. ]

See NEWS.Debian of libreoffice-base :)

Regards,

Rene