On 11/12/12 20:13, Jorge Andrés Brugger wrote: > El 12/11/2012 12:50 p.m., Mark Rotteveel escribió: >> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:47:10 -0200, Pablo Sánchez<pab...@adinet.com.uy> >> wrote: >>> Mark, maybe what Jorge is asking for, is to add to the tar.bz and rpm >>> packages, a deb package >>> on the firebirdsql site. >> But how would that be better, than simply getting it through apt-get as >> you do now? >> >> Mark > Actually, there is "rpm" for 2.5.2 but there isn't "deb" for 2.5.2 final > (and I´m grateful to Mariuz that he does what he does, but obviously the > release cycle is not sync'ed)
Supporting rpm is also not planned starting with FB3. The main reason is that rpm for (as an example) fedora core is not exactly same rpm as needed for (again example) suse. We obviously can't support rpms for all kinds of distro. And an attempt to have 'universal' package like now leads instead to 'hardly working' one. Suppose same issues are present in deb format too, therefore I do not like idea of adding debian package to SF releases. Writing good explanantion 'why' is certainly good thing. PS. A lot of projects provide themself nothing except src tarball. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
