FreeTDS Development Group

[Steve Langasek <vorlon AT netexpress.net>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:18:10PM +0200, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote:
> If anyone needs a debian package, point your browser to
> www.bitshift.de/misc/freetds0_0.60-1_i386.deb

> Would be nice, if some of test it !

FreeTDS 0.60 breaks binary compatibility with freetds 0.53, so installing
it as freetds0 on a Debian system will break applications that use
libsybdb.  Fortunately, all Debian packages that currently use FreeTDS
(sqsh, libdbd-sybase-perl, php4-sybase) use libct instead.

Your package also installs all of the files into /usr/local/freetds/,
which is off-limits to packagers, and which will also break the system of
anyone who is currently using the official Debian freetds0 package.  If
you're going to call it a "Debian package", you should try to make sure
it complies with Debian policy :)

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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