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

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Le lundi 11 février 2019 à 23:40:51+0100, Jonas Meurer a écrit :
> Hi PEB, hi anarcat,
> 
> Pierre-Elliott Bécue:
> > Le lundi 11 février 2019 à 16:27:21-0500, Antoine Beaupré a écrit :
> >> 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 :
> >>>> 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. ;)
> > 
> > I'll leave ourselves 24h of thinking and then I'll upload.
> > 
> > If you get attacked by insomnia, you know what to do. :P
> 
> Sorry for not responding earlier, I was to busy with other things.
> Still, I should have reacted earlier ...
> 
> As you might have seen, mariadb-10.1 10.1.37-0+deb9u1 is in stable-new
> queue[1]. I don't know the details why it didn't proceed to stable yet,
> but there's hope that this issue will be sorted out in Stretch soon. The
> 10.1.37 contains both the upstream backport of
> `innodb_default_row_format`[2] and the patch to the config[3] that sets
> the default row format to `dynamic`, so the `max key length is 767
> bytes` error is definitely fixed in this release.
> 
> Therefore I don't think it's still *needed* to upload the patch that PEB
> poposed in this bugreport. I don't *object* to uploading it either. So
> if you want to, go ahead, PEB. But we should track the mariadb 10.1
> version in Stretch and remove the Debconf question again once mariadb
> 10.1.37 got accepted into Stretch.
> 
> Cheers

This mariadb release seems to be already in security for stretch.

I changed a little the warning but I think we should keep it (at least
until the point release of stretch is really done):
https://salsa.debian.org/mailman-team/mailman-suite/commits/stretch-backports

Tell me what you think about it.

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue
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