Package: firebird3.0-server-core Version: 3.0.1.32609.ds4-13 Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, For people wanting to use firebird like sqlite3, they need this "server" package, not just whatever client package. This should be indicated in the various package descriptions. Additionally, since most people will not be using *remote* servers, each client package should have "Recommends: firebird3.0-server-core" and "Suggests: firebird3.0-server". Note that not all clients necessarily go through libfbclient2, but I don't know if any of those are in Debian, or whether they support Embedded mode. This is particularly important since all the documentation on the internet only applies to firebird 2.5 and references a nonexistent 'libfbembed.so' (the equivalent is now 'libEngine12.so'), so `apt-file search` isn't particularly helpful. Also, the error messages if this package is missing are *very* unhelpful. -Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages firebird3.0-server-core depends on: ii firebird3.0-common 3.0.1.32609.ds4-13 ii firebird3.0-common-doc 3.0.1.32609.ds4-13 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libfbclient2 3.0.1.32609.ds4-13 ii libgcc1 1:7-20161201-1 ii libib-util 3.0.1.32609.ds4-13 ii libncurses5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libstdc++6 7-20161201-1 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1 ii libtommath1 1.0-4 firebird3.0-server-core recommends no packages. Versions of packages firebird3.0-server-core suggests: pn firebird3.0-server <none> -- no debconf information