[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#854433: firebird3.0-server-core: Please document that this is the package needed to use the embedded mode

[Ben Longbons]

Package: firebird3.0-server-core
Version: 3.0.1.32609.ds4-13
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

For people wanting to use firebird like sqlite3, they need this
"server" package, not just whatever client package. This should be
indicated in the various package descriptions.

Additionally, since most people will not be using *remote* servers, each
client package should have "Recommends: firebird3.0-server-core" and
"Suggests: firebird3.0-server". Note that not all clients necessarily
go through libfbclient2, but I don't know if any of those are in Debian,
or whether they support Embedded mode.

This is particularly important since all the documentation on the
internet only applies to firebird 2.5 and references a nonexistent
'libfbembed.so' (the equivalent is now 'libEngine12.so'), so
`apt-file search` isn't particularly helpful. Also, the error messages
if this package is missing are *very* unhelpful.

-Ben


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32, arm64

Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firebird3.0-server-core depends on:
ii  firebird3.0-common      3.0.1.32609.ds4-13
ii  firebird3.0-common-doc  3.0.1.32609.ds4-13
ii  libc6                   2.24-9
ii  libfbclient2            3.0.1.32609.ds4-13
ii  libgcc1                 1:7-20161201-1
ii  libib-util              3.0.1.32609.ds4-13
ii  libncurses5             6.0+20161126-1
ii  libstdc++6              7-20161201-1
ii  libtinfo5               6.0+20161126-1
ii  libtommath1             1.0-4

firebird3.0-server-core recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firebird3.0-server-core suggests:
pn  firebird3.0-server  <none>

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