Firebird Database Debian Packaging Group

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The goal of this sub-project is to improve and help with the maintenance of the Firebird packages in Debian.

Help wanted: Firebird and related software are too important and too complicated to be maintained by a single person. Help is needed with packaging and testing.

TODO:

• Port firebird to new architectures. See bugs #460219 (ia64), #460217 (arm), #415668 (s390), #432076 (m68k), #460218 (alpha), #417410 (hppa) and #412356 (general). Some of these are already addressed, but need testing, running the TCS, finding/fixing problems etc., which requires access to the architecture in question.
• Write manual pages. See #419596
• Invent an easy way to test the build using firebird test suite.
• Try using -O2 for compiler optimizations and benchmark to see if it is slower. Test suite would be of great help for this
• Patch super server manager not to spit error/success messages to the console, but log them in the logs only. Also, make it return proper error codes so we can use LSB functions in the init.d script.
• More fbmanager stuff - make it return success only *after* it has created its PID file.

If you are willing to help this effort, please join the mailing list. The list is quite low volume. Non-subscriber posts are moderated as a measure to keep SPAM out of the list. See the list archives.

Other resources of interest include:

• The home page of the Firebird project.
• The project's page on Alioth.
• Package tracking system.
• The git repositories are on git.debian.org - 1.5 (removed), 2.0, 2.1, upstream and web-site.
• A graphical administration tool called FlameRobin is also available. A Debian package is there as well.