[debian-mysql] [Pkg-mysql-commits] r1208 - / trunk trunk/debian trunk/debian/patches

[Norbert Tretkowski]

Am Mittwoch, den 30.04.2008, 03:50 +0000 schrieb Monty Taylor:
> Log:
> * Added the eBay patch for variable sized Memory engine rows.

I'm wondering if we really should add unofficial feature patches to the
Debian MySQL packages, like this or the sphinx storage engine one.

Last weekend I thought about adding the microslow patch from Percona and
decided against it:

- Bugreports need to get reproduced with the unpatched source before
  forwarding it to the MySQL BTS.
- Upgrading to a new MySQL upstream release needs additional work when 
  one of the patches doesn't work with the new MySQL release.
- We'll really get in trouble if one of these patches in a stable Debian
  release will conflict with a security fix.

Other thoughts?

	Norbert