Known Errors In Kexi Packages: Archive

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0.8 Stable (bundled with KOffice 1.4)

SuSE Linux 10.x

Author: SuSE Team Reported by: staniek@kde.org

Problem1: SQLite-related errors in Kexi package (KOffice 1.4.1)

Status: fixed in 1.0

Kexi has bundled its own version of SQLite 2 and 3. I can see you removed it and added a dependency on reguilar sqlite package. This will cause crashes and/or nonworking Kexi features, like sqlite2->sqlite3 conversions. Compatibility with sqlite2 is thus broken.

Decision for bundling sqlite with Kexi has been made because of a need for long-term compatibility.

Proposed solution:

1. revert "external-sqlite.diff" patch
2. in the future: ask Kexi maintainer before such internal change is performed

Reported here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=121933

Problem2: PostgreSQL driver bundled with KOffice, making it hard to install

Status: fixed in 1.0

PostgreSQL driver should be offered as a separate package (Kexi itself shouldn't depend on PostgresSQL). The same as with MySQL. We will support Oracle in the future but this shouldn't mean KOffice needs Oracle to run.

Reported here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=121936

0.8 Beta 1 (bundled with KOffice 1.4 Beta 1)

SuSE Linux 9.3

Download: http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/ Author: SuSE Team Reported by: staniek@kde.org

• No PostgreSQL driver. Kexi fully supports PostgreSQL.
• MySQL driver is bundled with Kexi package while it should be offered as a separate package (Kexi itself shouldn't depend on MySQL). See here for more info.
• no ksqlite and ksqlite2 command line tools

Mandriva Linux 10.2

Download: http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=unstable/koffice-1.4-beta1/

Author: Laurent Montel, lmontel @ mandriva.com Reported by: staniek@kde.org

• No PostgreSQL driver. Kexi fully supports PostgreSQL.
• MySQL driver is bundled with Kexi package while it should be offered as a separate package (Kexi itself shouldn't depend on MySQL). See here for more info.
• wrong description for koffice-kexi package: "Scalable drawing for koffice"