Hi,
Ah, yes, sorry, forgot about the policy. 🙈️ But its's the same behaviour on vanilla Trixie (and derived distos, like LMDE Gigi beta, etc.), too…
Guessed so, as it also uses firebird 4.0.
You can report it via submit@ manually ;-). But I would simply reiterate the stuff I posted here, and downgrade to important if necessary)and thus the bug (if it was reported against the BTS) would be important only, IMHO.So you suggest I roll back my test VM to the standard packages, and report the bug again, to ensure it is in the database? (And the bug *is* a blocker in my case, btw.!)
Yes.Am 18.10.25 12:12 schrieb(en) Rene Engelhard:Unfortunately in neither trixie nor trixie-backports nor even in untable it is really fixable now - only when upstream finally upgrades to 4.0 or 5.0 (which isn't even in Debian, so no system-one possible either) - because of exactly the "downgrade" issue you mentioned in your report...I think we have two issues here: (1) Calling a legitimate SQL function must not result in an error and
Yes. (That is the same as why libreoffice-base depends on a (extra packaged) libhsqldb1.8.0-java for a totally obsolete hsqldb version)(2) the lack of platform interoperability.
Whilst (2) isn't nice, it is *not* a blocker for me. But (1) IMHO probably *can* be fixed unless Firebird 4 is completely broken (or not ISO/IEC 9075 compatible any more, which is rather unlikely) or the glue layer is beyond your control.
firebird is not under my control.
You see the reaction of the firebird maintainer back then, he didn't even care about stuff being broken so I needed to tighten the dependencies to make it not break even in building with a eventual firebird 5.0...
Unless it is, yes....The issue occurred on a friend's (roofer, no computer expert) box who used “XRechnung” (<https://www.familiegrosskopf.de/robert/index.php?&Inhalt=xrechnung>, building upon the experimental embedded FB feature, but that's beyond our control) for his business for some time happily on a Win 10 box. Due to the expired support of the latter, I migrated his machine to Debian. So I guess unless (1) is fixed, the only option is to throw away the broken (from the user's pov) Debian packages, and to install those from libreoffice.org, right?
I must admit that this is really disappointing for a disto which aims at being the most “stable”, to be honest.
Yes, it is, definitely.
Complain at the firebird maintainer.
As said, in hindsight I should have reverted to internal 3.0 when that happened. Lesson learned. Will do the next time. Now it happened and dowgrading as you say will open another pandoras box. I.e. files probably not readable at all which is WORSE than SUM() not working.
Then again you (or your friend) is using experimental features anyway. Can't XRechnung use hsqldb (which is available everywhere where Java is not disabled. That won't help on archs where Java also is disabled, but...)
Regadrs,
Rene