[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#921128: Info received (mailman3-web fails to initialize mysql: Specified key was too long)

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Le lundi 11 février 2019 à 09:14:55-0500, Antoine Beaupré a écrit :
> On 2019-02-11 09:01:22, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> > Le 11 février 2019 00:10:55 GMT+01:00, "Antoine Beaupré" <anarcat at debian.org> a écrit :
> >>On 2019-02-10 01:11:35, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> >>> Le vendredi 01 février 2019 à 21:05:38-0500, Antoine Beaupré a
> >>écrit :
> >>>> I just read the README.Debian file and it says the mariadb version
> >>in
> >>>> stretch might conflict with the mailman3-web version.
> >>>> 
> >>>> If that's really the case, might I suggest the backport be fixed to
> >>warn
> >>>> explicitely about this somehow? maybe conflict with that mariadb
> >>>> version?
> >>>
> >>> Please review and comment
> >>>
> >>https://salsa.debian.org/mailman-team/mailman-suite/commit/1dc0dcf43e763b4b78e808877d65a8dbb6119170
> >>>
> >>> I'll upload in a couple of days. :)
> >>
> >>That's a great start!
> >>
> >>Couldn't we check if mariadb is actually installed or configured
> >>somehow
> >>instead of just always prompting?
> >>
> >>But if that's too much work, it's better than nothing for sure.
> >>
> >>THanks! :)
> >>
> >>A.
> >
> > The risk is that if the user plans to use an external DB you won't warn him.
> 
> Right, the only way this could be properly implemented would be if
> debconf would attempt to connect with the configured DB credentials to
> check the remote server version (or, better, to test the actuall code
> bugginess).
> 
> That's probably overkill though.

ISTM that it is.

But if you wish to go to such extents I'd be glad to include a patch!
(no time to dev it though)

Chaars,

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Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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