[debian-mysql] Bug#809022: Bug#809022: Bug#809022: autopkgtest patch for MariaDB

[Kristian Nielsen]

Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> writes:

> Thank you very much Kristian for looking into this and producing a
> potential fix. Unfortunately I don't have any environment where I
> could test it, and I am a bit reluctant to apply the patch and test it
> in production unless somebody confirms that this was indeed the
> correct fix.

I doubt it will fix it. If the problem is indeed that Perl is running in
taint mode, then many other things will break. Only if some other magic is
affecting just the '.' entry of @INC will the patch have any effect.

The thing to do is try to verify if indeed taint mode is the cause of the
problem, and if so, why taint mode gets enabled. I'm not familiar with
ci.debian.net, maybe the docs have something, I can try looking. How is this
configured, is everything in the debian packaging, read by autopkgtest?

What I saw was that running mysql-test-run.pl in taint mode locally produces
the exact same error. That doesn't prove that taint mode is the cause here,
but it certainly seems a possibility.

 - Kristian.