[debian-mysql] Bug#787533: Bug#787533: mariadb-common: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/mysql/my.cnf

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

2015-06-02 18:07 GMT+03:00 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>:
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> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies conffiles.
> This is forbidden by the policy, see
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files

This my.cnf modification was introduced in commit
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mariadb-10.0.git/commit/?id=90b6bde63c8128eb7f54f16dfeec88081e4bdb0d

It as absolutely necessary to do, otherwise the package is broken.

The engineering behind this is a transition in progress to adapt to
new MySQL 5.6 packaging, which unfortunately isn't uploaded yet. It
has been over 6 months since I did the changes requested by people who
where in progress of creating the MySQL 5.6 packages, yet they've
failed to complete the same changes themself as they requested I
should do.

If the MySQL packages are not maintained in a few months, then we
should maybe consider MySQL 5.6 in Debian abandoned since it hasn't
got any uploads in almost a year
(https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mysql-5.6) and I could revert all
MySQL 5.6 adaptations in the MariaDB packages.