Hi, I come back to this old bug. Ping? Can we make progress on this?
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:05:26PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > >> I don't know what ODBC is, I just install and it asks: "Do you want MyODBC > >> to be registered as an ODBC driver?" With default to No. > > >> I think the default should be yes, so it will just work for most users. > >> Unless you have a reason, of course. > > > The reason for this is that handing over control of the driver > > entries to the package will result in any local changes to the entry > > in /etc/odbcinst.ini being overwritten. I believe this is a policy > > violation, so am not willing to enable this by default. > > The other ODBC drivers packaged in Debian that I tried (PostgreSQL, > SQLite) register to ODBC by default or unconditionally. So either this > is a policy violation and all other ODBC driver packages are RC-buggy > (file bugs then!), or change the default to "yes" for MyODBC, so that > Debian users get an easy and uniform experience. > > > I've started a thread on debian-devel looking for input on this. > > And? What was the outcome of that? > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
