After two years of squashing bugs Debian 6.0 Squeeze is released , in the new version Firebird 2.1.3 is included that is considered quite stable and supported for development if you don’t use the new features from 2.5. Here is the guide for installing it on Debian stable systems from official repository.
New snapshot of firebird 3.0 is uploaded in debian experimental for testing .
Also there is a new upload for flamerobin in the experimental area
There is a new version of phpbb3 (3.0.8) so I have updated the guide for Ubuntu (Maverick or Lucid) and it will work without issues in Debian too.
Firebird 3.0 is now uploaded and accepted into official Debian experimental repository (this is the first upload so things will break also you must backup database from 2.5 and restore into 3.0)
You can read install guide for firebird 3.0 on howto access the experimental repository.
The good news is that tests are running ok and soon i will show the numbers vs the g++ ones
Here are the tips on howto compile it on Linux (Debian/Ubuntu…)
This package is meant to enter experimental, due to the high pace of upstream
development. Its goal is to provide easy testing of the new features of
Firebird and to have early exposure of the packaging helping to discover any
problems.
firebird3.0 is the third group of packages for Firebird. Squeeze is going to
release with firebird2.1 and firebird2.5. The plan for wheezy is to drop
firebird2.1 and add firebird3.0, if that has proven stable by the time wheezy
approaches releasable state.
Preliminary packagiing is available at
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/3.0.git;a=summary
With latest patches for hppa and alpha in Firebird 2.5 and Firebird 3.0 main tree Firebird supports all the Main Debian Architectures
All the cpus are supported now if in the next round of
buildd logs hppa and alpha cpu will be ok (green) minus the HURD thing 🙂
https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.5
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=firebird2.5&suite=experimental
You can consult the list of supported architectures from last year and you can see the progress
Already ported:
Minor ports that are not supported by Debian Main but we will try to do it anyway :
m68k
hurd
avr
ps:
So you can install firebird on the phone (maemo, meego or chrooted debian on android) or on the mainframe linux (ibm s390)
Debian packages for the official Firebird 2.5.0 release are available. Because Debian is in a “freeze”, preparing for its stable release, these were uploaded to the experimental distribution.
You can follow this guide to use the mix of Debian sid and experimental distro with latest Firebird package
