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

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2015-06-15 11:09, Robie Basak wrote:
> 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.

Good news!

> 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.

I'll take a look at this :-)

> Maybe this bug can be reassigned to mysql-common,
No, the "fixup code" in mariadb has to go away.

> or its severity in
> mariadb reduced? It doesn't make sense to remove mariadb from testing.
ACK.

Andreas