Re: Firebird update and Libreoffice dependency

[Philippe Makowski]

2016-10-16 21:25 GMT+02:00 David Tardon <dtardon(a)redhat.com&gt;:

>  Hi,
>
>  On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 12:16:53PM +0200, Philippe Makowski wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Firebird 3.0.1 is released, I can upgrade the package in Fedora, I have a
>  > Copr repo with it :
>  > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/makowski/firebird/
>  >
>  > The problem is that Firebird 3 don't provide anymore fbembed lib, they
>  put
>  > all in firebird lib.
>  >
>  > For Mageia, to don't disturb LibreOffice, I created a new package for
>  > fbembed,
>  > I think it is the easiest way, unless LibreOffice whant to build with
>  > Firebird 3.
>  >
>  > Under Mageia, the change in LibreOffice was then :
>  > [packages] Diff of /cauldron/libreoffice/current/SPECS/libreoffice.spec
>  > <http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/libreoffice/
>  current/SPECS/libreoffice.spec?r1=997169&r2=1000060>
>  >
>  > and here the new package fbembed :
>  > http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/fbembed/current/
>  >
>  > Any thought ?
>  > any one to jump to create fbembed ?
>
>  Actually, I think I'll disable firebird support in libreoffice again. I
>  enabled it at some point in the past because I foolishly thought it's
>  about to replace hsqldb as the embedded DB format soon. But that has
>  never happened, for good reasons (one of them is that the file format is
>  endian-dependent). There was an attempt to update the firebird
>  dependency to 3.0--and to change the format to some other one supported
>  by that version--during this year's GSoC, but hsqldb is going to stay
>  for the foreseeable future, so it's better to ignore firebird.
>  Especially as it's only avaiable in libreoffice if experimental features
>  are enabled...
>
>  As you want, but in case, it's easy to create a fbembed package (with 
firebird
2.5) if you need it