Helen Borrie wrote:

> 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.
>

It's not clear what i'm saying?
Why?

> 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.
>

Claiming to be some sort of firebird version 2 release and instead being
a patched 1.5.3 is more than "misbehaves in some way".

In my eyes it's more something like "totally broken".

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

No, i won't shoot.
But i really coudn't believe that they are doing something like this.
They must be really crazy (naming it firebird2 instead of firebird 1.5).

It also could be that my box is broken in some way, or that the
transportable backup got broken during up- or download.

I didn't use some firebird 2 features like longer indexes or the like.

It was just a very small testdb.
I put it up here:
http://dabodev.com/tracker/0274

Thank's for clarification.

Uwe