Bug#440855: gnugk: Must build-depend on firebird2.0-dev, not firebird2-dev

[Jan Willamowius]

Hi,

from what I hear, the Firebird database driver is very rarely used. If
its causing you any trouble, I would suggest to build without Firebird
support.

Regards,
Jan


Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Package: gnugk
> Version: 2:2.2.6-1
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since firebird1.5 (providing firebird2-dev) is going to be removed[1]
> because it is not supported by upstream any more and has security
> issues, gnugk will suddenly FTBFS and become uninstallable due to
> missing firebird2-dev and libfbclient1 packages.
> 
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/438862
> 
> The attached patch changes the Build-Depends on firebird to
> firebird2.0-dev, which takes care of the Depends also. I've build the
> package on amd64 without errors (in a fresh sid pbuilder chroot).
> 
> Note that I've taken the oportunity to also extend the list of
> architectures firebird is supported by powerpc, sparc and kfreebsd-*.
> 
> Severity is serious, since gnugk should not be released
> (build-)depending on an unsupported version ofr firebird.
> 
> Thanks for taking care.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash


-- 
Jan Willamowius, jan at willamowius.de, http://www.gnugk.org/