[debian-mysql] MySQL 5.1 in unstable and 5.4 to experimental?

[Mathias Gug]

Hi Christian,

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Christian Hammers<ch at debian.org> wrote:
>> 1. The cluster engine is disabled in 5.1 while enabled in 5.0.
>> 2. The 5.1 test suite fails during the build process while it's
>> successful in 5.0.
>>
>
> When creating the packages for Ubuntu, did you do any other changes
> to the Debian .diff from experimental?

I've filed bugs with the relevant changes I did during the merge.

> The README.Maintainer lists
> some points which might be fixed until the great masses installs it:
>
> * debian-sys-maint is not created properly in postinst

See Bug#535492: mysql-dfsg-5.1: Fix debian-sys-maint user creation.

> * Asking for root passwort has not yet been backported^H^H^H^Htested.

See Bug#535500: mysql-dfsg-5.1: Don't ask for root password when
upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1 - ask root password at priority high instead
of medium

AFAICT this is now working. I've also put the change from medium to
high priority for the root password debconf question. If this has
already been discussed and rejected I'm fine with it. I haven't taken
the time to edit out this part of the patch.

> * Debconf template translations need testing
> * Incompatible change: The table_cache system variable has been renamed
>  to table_open_cache. -> sed over /etc/mysql/*
> * Append --syslog to /etc/mysql/*
> * call the REPAIR TABLE statement for each table that contains any
>  FULLTEXT  indexes.
> * put this trigger-recreation thing into the init scripts
>

I wasn't aware of these issues and haven't had time to look at them yet.

-- 
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com