[debian-mysql] Config file decoupling - status?

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

FYI to people on this list too: Canonical hosted a MySQL and variants
packaging sprint last week where I and many others participated,
including Oracle and Percona staff. Thanks Robie for organizing - it
was cool to meat so many people from here in person and at least
personally I felt it was a very productive week (as you can see in the
git commit logs in my Github account).

One of the things we discussed and partly implemented was the config
and data directory decoupling driven by Robie.

You can see the changes made to the mysql-common package in the
commits in the repo https://github.com/akhil-mohan/debian-mysql
(mirror of the git.debian.org mysql-5.6 repo but not yet synced
there). The protorype of changes to a mysql-comon dependant package is
visible in the commits

https://github.com/percona/debian-percona-server-5.6/commit/1d22733bcbb1216bf9f92cc752e3dc6cef774cfd
https://github.com/percona/debian-percona-server-5.6/commit/4ec4c47c29da274565d9fe8c1c3842f548501fac

This branch of Percona packaging is now not anymore dependant on the
Oracle MySQL my.cnf changes and instead uses it's own
/etc/mysql/percona.conf which it registers via a helper script in
mysql-common.

What are you status on these packages, have you tested them now and
did you notice any issues? PIng me when they are final so that I can
investigate them more any start planning/testing what the same
changeset for the MariaDB packages whould be like.

- Otto