[debian-mysql] conf files decoupling (Re: On IRC?)

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2015-02-09 14:07 GMT+02:00 Robie Basak <robie.basak at canonical.com>:
>> I like the idea of having a bit of backwards compatibility and at the
>> same time cater for new features (the goal here was to allow for per
>> variant configs), so I'll try to think a bit more if I come up with an
>> perfect solution here.
>
> What don't you like about my proposed solution, that you would like to
> change or find a better way?

Your solution is OK, I just wish to have unified packaging across all
the packages I maintain to minimize my total work. Thus I think about
backwards and frontwards compatibility. Many users are likely to
install newer MariaDB/Percona/MySQL versions than what the distro
provides, or for other reasons mix in different repositories where
MySQL is packaged in different ways, so a capability based
interoperability would be nice, at least for a year or so until the
new packaging style gets picked up in other places too. But I haven't
invented the solution yet, I'll keep thinking about it for a while.