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myodbc package

  1. Bug #119387
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 119387

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In , Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: Bug#250850: libmyodbc: automatic adding as odbc driver should default to yes

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 02:49:30PM +0200, Martin Renold wrote:
> Package: libmyodbc
> Version: 3.51.06-1
> Severity: normal

> To get MySQL support in OpenOffice this package seems to be necessary.
> I don't know what ODBC is, I just install and it asks: "Do you want MyODBC
> to be registered as an ODBC driver?" With default to No.

> I think the default should be yes, so it will just work for most users.
> Unless you have a reason, of course.

The reason for this is that handing over control of the driver entries to
the package will result in any local changes to the entry in
/etc/odbcinst.ini being overwritten. I believe this is a policy violation,
so am not willing to enable this by default.

I've started a thread on debian-devel looking for input on this.

> Another thing, in an attempt to get asked the question again I tried:
> # dpkg-reconfigure libmyodbc
> odbcinst: Driver installed. Usage count increased to 2. Target directory is /etc
> # dpkg-reconfigure libmyodbc
> odbcinst: Driver installed. Usage count increased to 3. Target directory is /etc

This part is definitely a bug (in my reasoning when I put the packaging
together). It will be fixed in an upcoming upload.

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