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? -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
