On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 05:17:53AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I think firebird support is exotic enough, that it shouldn't be
Maybe, yes. But it's (well, was) the only alternative to have the internal embedded database not being hsqldb (thus Java). This firebird thing is *not* for connecting to firebird but for the embedded db. > installed by default, which is currently the case via > libreoffice->libreoffice-base->libreoffice-base-drivers->libreoffice-sdbc-firebird Which was completely intended. > I just did a fresh GNOME stretch installation, and was suprised to find > the following packages being installed: You reported this against Package: libreoffice-base-drivers Version: 1:5.2.3~rc1-4 but that one hasn't a libreoffice-sdbc-firebird built anymore (see changelog for the reason, uncoodinated transition LO isn't at all ready for.). So how did you get libreoffice-sdbc-firebird pulled it? Except if your apt still knew it because you had something else in sources.list, too? (exeprimentak wouldn't have caused > > firebird2.5-common-doc install > firebird2.5-common install > firebird2.5-server-common install > firebird3.0-common-doc install > firebird3.0-common install > libreoffice-sdbc-firebird install given the upload didn't yet arrive there and if it was it'd have installed 5.3 alpha1 and firebird 3.0 ;) > Thanks for considering. Trust me, I did consider already where to put it, and IMHO it's more warranted to give people a alternative to Java than leaving it out in a Suggests people won't install. (Ok, then again you still wouuld need to enable Experimental Features in LO to actually use it, but that's an other story) Regards, Rene
