https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168143
Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Summary|Embedded Firebird databases |Embedded Firebird databases
|aren't |are Firebird-version aren't
|cross-platform/portable |portable (depend on
| |firebird version)
--- Comment #7 from Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org> ---
Hi,
> Have tested this again:
[...]
> The problem only exist with the packages Linux distributions will create, not
> with packages of LO.
That "test" doesn't show anything really new. It shows LO Base "can be used"
(and you didn't even say which odb you used here...)
FWIW: It is the same mess as why LibreOffice didn't upgrade hsqldb (and why I
said in the IRC log pasted above I ship
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libhsqldb1.8.0-java).
I can't with firebird3.0 though since it's out of my control and could conflict
at places...
> The version Ubuntu/Debian will decide to use since 2025 or the newer
> version Firebird 5.
That is indeed the question.
Even Debian unstable doesn't contain 5.0 yet :/
And 4.0 (as said above) was forced upon me quite late in the release cycle in
January...
I feared this problem but then again also hoped that LO will upgrade firebird
somewhen...
> We should better be independent from a special Linux distribution.
Ideally not, yes.
But one problem also is why LibreOffice uses an old firebird.
Regardless, LO needs to update their internal copy anyway. If it's 4.0 it
probably restores compatibility as Mike already said in his first post
correctly.
But then we'll get the same problem 4.0->5.0, as Mike also correctly said.
I always thought firebird was a bad decision and one should have used something
which is known to be cross-architecture/cross-platform/cross-version
compatible. But I think everyone assumed that using the backup format was
exactly that which aparently is not - as this 3.0->4.0 upgrade showed vividly.
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