[debian-mysql] MySQL 5.7 Packaging

[Lars Tangvald]

Hi,

Sounds good to me. I'll start looking over the list.

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Lars

On 02/29/2016 12:48 PM, Robie Basak wrote:
> Lars and Bjoern,
>
> I'm mostly through an initial review pass. This is for packaging changes
> only - I've not looked at build or tests yet. I thought I'd give
> feedback early so that we can work together to try and get something
> ready quicker.
>
> It's really difficult for me to review commits like "cleanup". Many of
> your commits are like this. I'd prefer to see individual commits for
> individual changes, with a commit message that explains why the change
> was required.
>
> So instead I took Lars' entire change against the current 5.6 packaging
> as a big diff and broke it down into logical changes as separate
> commits. This makes it easy to consider each logical change at a time.
> You can see this breakdown at:
>
> https://git.launchpad.net/~racb/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/log/?h=5.7v1
>
> (starting at the commit tagged "base" which is on the second page)
>
> My breakdown is for changes in debian/ only. I deliberately didn't pull
> in the upstream changes to make it easier to work with this patchset. So
> this branch is *not* intended for merging.
>
> I do propose that this patchset be rebased onto the current 5.6 Debian
> packaging tip properly when it is ready though, to form the initial 5.7
> Debian packaging. Until then, please give me either: 1) patches to add
> to this patchset; or 2) patches to squash in to this patchset; just let
> me know the commit hash to squash into. It's easiest if you push these
> to a git tree somewhere. I don't care where, but please don't use Alioth
> master as it will not be our final version.
>
> Bjoern and Lars, please note the difference to what you have currently
> pushed to master (in Alioth and your own Github respectively). Each
> logical change is a separate commit. This is why I propose to replace
> your pushes to master with my branch - because this is cleaner and
> reviewable.
>
> Bjoern, please could I ask that you refrain from pushing anything to
> Alioth master that is not a set of clean commits like this? For example
> "final changes grabbed from Lars" and "even more duplicates.." are not
> suitable. Since you have already done this without review, I propose
> that when we're ready with a replacement branch, we replace wholesale
> what you have currently pushed with a force push.
>
> In my work in progress patchset, changes that I think look fine just
> have a normal commit message. Changes that I think need fixing are
> prefixed "Needs fix:" or "Fix:" or similar. Changes I haven't reviewed
> yet are prefixed "TODO:". Changes that I am not yet convinced about are
> prefixed "Check:" - this might be because I need to spend time looking
> deeper, because they lack an explanation of why and it isn't obvious to
> me, or because they are somehow otherwise suspicious. Changes prefixed
> "Spurious:" are things I don't think are necessary and can be dropped,
> and "Extra:" are things not in Lars' branch which I think should be
> added.
>
> When done, I'll rebase my patchset, eliminating these prefixes and
> squashing down any fixes needed, so we'll end up with a single
> reviewable patchset taking us from 5.6 to 5.7 packaging.
>
> Robie