Hi, Now that I finally managed the firebird2.0 upload to bpo (thanks to Alexander Wirt), here's a bit of explaination why it is needed. firebird2.0 is not in etch. Etch has firebird1.5. firebird1.5 was removed from unstable/testing due to being deprecated upstream and having severe security problems. (http://bugs.debian.org/438862) In order to deprecate firebird1.5 in etch too (via an DSA), a replacement is needed and that replacement would be the backported firebird2.0. Even though firebird2.0 is not a drop-in replacement for its 1.5 counterpart, there is a migration path. Details are in /usr/share/doc/firenord2.0-doc/ReleaseNotes.pdf.gz, shipped in firebird2.0-doc package. firebird2.0 in unstable contains additional security fix, compared to the one in testing. That should migrate to testing soon and I'll upload an updated backport when this happens. -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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