Add debian trixie image for Firebird 3

[level420]

It would be, at least for me, helpful to also have the firebird 3 trixie images.
Thanks in advance.

[level420]

PS.: debian bullseye will be (real) EOL on August 31, 2026

[fdcastel]

It’s the same issue with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat).

Firebird 3 was built against older libraries that are no longer included in these newer distributions.

I’m not exactly sure how to fix it, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

[fdcastel]

@asfernandes @hvlad @mrotteveel

Your insights on this problem would be greatly appreciated.

[mrotteveel]

I'm not an expert on this, but I guess either the Firebird 3.0 build needs to be "modernized" in this respect, or you need to compile it yourself.

[asfernandes]

What is the exact problem(s)? With what libraries?

[fdcastel]

Both Trixie and Noble lack libncurses5 and even libtinfo5. Only libncurses6/libtinfo6 exist.

[asfernandes]

I think building from sources would be the way to go.

[fdcastel]

I’d STRONGLY prefer to stick exclusively to official releases for this project.

Also, would that be our response to any user who wants to run Firebird 3 on a modern Linux distribution in a few months: “Build it yourself”?

[fdcastel]

@level420 — thanks for the prompt and the heads-up about bullseye EOL. The fix is up in #43, and I have published test images to my fork's GitHub Container Registry so you can try them before the PR merges.

If you have time, please pull the 3-trixie and 3-noble tags and confirm they work for your use case. Any failure mode you can reproduce would be especially useful before this merges upstream. Thanks again for raising the issue.

[level420]

@fdcastel thanks for the trixie images. I've done some tests with the firebird 3.0.14 trixie image and everything worked well. No problems so far. Will test noble soon.

[level420]

@fdcastel worked now some while with firebird 3.0.14 noble image without problems. Looks good to me.

[fdcastel]

Great! I’ll merge this tonight.

Thank you, @level420, for bringing this to my attention and for the valuable feedback.