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

[Antoine Beaupré]

On 2019-02-11 21:52:32, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
> 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)

Alright, let good win in the face of non-existing perfect threats. ;)

A.

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