[debian-mysql] initial feedback on mariadb

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello,

2013/5/14 Nicholas Bamber <nicholas at periapt.co.uk>:
> 1.) The debian/copyright file has a non-standard  format. See
> http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
> When the format is corrected we can do some stuff with license-reconcile.
>
> You can find my debian/copyright file and license-reconcile file in
> git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-mysql/packages/mysql.git

Hmm.. it think I'll just copy that copyright file version and hope
upstream MariaDB will add new names etc if needed

> 2.) There is no point having Norbert Tretkowski as an uploader.

This is inheritance from the MySQL packages. I will remove him now
that I know I can do that.

> 3.) The build dependencies includes stuff I am sure are no longer
> needed. As a first stab consider what I had in git:
> debhelper (>= 9), libaio-dev[linux-any], libncurses5-dev (>= 5.0-6),
> perl, libwrap0-dev (>= 7.6-8.3), zlib1g-dev (>= 1:1.1.3-5),
> libreadline-dev, po-debconf, psmisc, chrpath, gawk, bison, lsb-release,
> hardening-wrapper, cmake, gcc-4.4 [any-i386], g++-4.4 [any-i386]
> Notice in particular no doxygen, ghostscript, automake. The gcc-4.4
> stuff was one of those oracle bugs we're complaining about so may not be
> needed in MariaDB. I have not yet checked whether you have enabled the
> stuff that required libaio-dev.


I will investigate this and update dependencies.

> 4.) Note we have a new standards version 3.9.4. We have no excuse for
> not conforming to that before uploading.

It was version 1.0 when I started :) Yes, I'll bump it up to latest
3.x.x version.

> 5.) THe naming of the packages (and associated clauses) has all the
> issues that the current packages have. I tried discussing what to do
> about it
> (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2012-June/004778.html)
> and the issues with the contents of the packages
> (http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/WhichPackage). My considered
> response is in the git repository.

I'll look into this.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll make the changes and build new packages
when I have some free time, might take some time since there are so
many work and family things scheduled for coming weeks, but eventually
I'll do it. If anybody else has more feedback at this time, please
send it and I will see that as much as possible gets considered when I
update the packaging.