2016-10-16 21:25 GMT+02:00 David Tardon <dtar...@redhat.com>:

> 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
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