At 12:36 PM 11/01/2007, you wrote:

>I read this on firebird-devel:
>
>from Message-ID: 45A4A3E3.1080801@...
>
> > (To answer Helen's confusion) Yes, currently 1.5 packages are named
> > firebird2 (with version like 1.5.3.xxx). This is a known bug that will
> > be fixed. It won't enter the upcoming (within a month or two) release,
> > though. the real 2.0 packages will be named firebird2.0 (with version
> > 2.0.xxxx), 1.5 will be firebird1.5 etc.
>
>I send a transportable backup of a little testdb from my opensuse 10.2
>box which has installed
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/FirebirdSS-2.0.0.12748-0.nptl.i686.rpm
>to an ubuntu user witch installed firebird2-super-server and
>firebird2-utils-super from ubuntu.

It's not clear what you're saying here, but "firebird2" packages from
the debian (ubuntu) download areas are Firebird 1.5.3, not firebird
2. So if (on Ubuntu) you are using the Firebird that is installed
from the package calling itself "firebird2_"-something, it won't open
a Firebird 2 backup because the package contains Firebird 1.5.

Oh, and don't be surprised if your Ubuntu-Firebird misbehaves in some
way. That's because Debian allows its packagers to freely patch code
into its distributions that hasn't been through any QA validation
around the certified Firebird releases and, of course, they do
it. That's the "spirit of open source", Debian-style, apparently.

And don't shoot me - I'm only the messenger.

./heLen