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

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

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.

Cheers ! 
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