[debian-mysql] Bug#848603: Enable innodb_large_prefix

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

* Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> [161219 22:21]:
> We live in a world where WordPress sites expect to be able to save
> emojis in comments :)

Sure, but other apps expect their indexes to work.

> We have had utf8mb4 as default in Debian and Ubuntu for a many years.

Possibly, but it's only now the provider for (default-)mysql-server.

> You are experiencing a corner case with a single app (which one?).

pdns-backend-mysql

Maybe next time when flipping providers, doing an rdep build and
install check is in order. Discovering that your package breaks
with no upload on your side - as such, a random discovery - is not
fun at all.

-- 
christian hofstaedtler <zeha at debian.org>