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Bug#992133: ITP: firebird4.0 -- Firebird RDBMS (version 4.0)



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : firebird4.0
  Version         : 4.0.0.2496
  Upstream Author : Firebird developers (firebird-devel@lists.sourceforge.net)
* URL             : https://www.firebirdsql.org/
* License         : Mostly Initial Developer Public License 1.0 (MPL-like)
  Programming Lang: C++, C
  Description     : Feature-rich, scalable relational database

Firebird 4 is the next generation following firebird 3 (available as 
firebird3.0 in Debian). Compared to firebird 3, this version adds:

 * Built-in logical replication;
 * Extended length of metadata identifiers (up to 63 characters);
 * New INT128 and DECFLOAT data types, longer precision for NUMERIC/DECIMAL 
   data types;
 * Support for international time zones;
 * Configurable time-outs for connections and statements;
 * Pooling of external connections;
 * Batch operations in the API;
 * Built-in cryptographic functions;
 * New ODS (version 13) with new system and monitoring tables;
 * Maximum page size increased to 32KB.

It needs to be packaged separately because the on-disk database format is not 
compatible with firebird3.0.

The packaging is based on firebird3.0, with updated copyright and patches.


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