Bug#346475: openoffice.org: please include postgresql support

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 346475 + wontfix
thanks

Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> Package: openoffice.org
> Version: 2.0.0-5
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> If possible, it would be good to include direct sdbc postgresql driver
> in the package, saving the user a potentially confusing proc3edure for
> installing it.
> Instructions and driver at:
> http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/postgresql/

I did just look at it (again) and have some more or less serious points
which are arguments against inclusion just now:

a) it apprently really needs 1.1.x to bbuild, it doesn't build against
2.0.1, at least on powerpc. And besides the fact that 1.1.x is ancient
it breaks with sids bison, so we'd need to use bison-1.35

b) If we package it like a "normal" UNO package we need to get a policy
on how to (un)install/-register it and how to get it cleanly removed
again. And more important: What is with extra components when you
upgrade OOo? This isn't solved. Neither is such a policy started.
The other way would be to patch OOo and the postgresql driver so that the
stuff is included like it was normally included in OOo (like the evoab2
stuff for example) which might be possible but see a) ;)

For those reasons I tend not to include it (yet) and tag it wontfix (for
now). Maybe sometimes... Originally, that driver even was planned for
2.0 (and I even did help to make systen-pq) but it somehow didn't make
it. No idea why.

c) Question: which postgresql/libpq do you use? Does it work with sids 8.1.x?
Or do you use the binaries? They do work with our OOo packages? I doubt that...

Regards,

Rene