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

[Robie Basak]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 02:47:00AM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> ..so at the moment the only thing I can do is to revert all mysql-5.6
> compatibility in MariaDB, which would be a huge waste of everybody's
> time. Can't we make an exception from the policy here as clearly the
> point of the policy is to make the packages as clean as possible, not
> impossible?

I'm sorry, I had failed to realise that mariadb was affected by my delay
in uploading mysql-5.6 in this way. I am working on an upload of
mysql-5.6 to fix mysql-common.

The new mysql-common replaces the /etc/mysql/my.cnf conffile with a
non-conffile maintainer-script-manager symlink (via
update-alternatives). It is in VCS, though I want to fix a separate bug
before I upload to minimise the impact on users of unstable and testing
who will transition from 5.5 to 5.6 as soon as I upload.

Maybe this bug can be reassigned to mysql-common, or its severity in
mariadb reduced? It doesn't make sense to remove mariadb from testing.

Robie
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