[debian-mysql] Bug#852495: Bug#852495: mariadb-server-10.[01]: purging old mariadb-server shuts down mariadb-server and removes init.d links

[Julian Gilbey]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:52:34AM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Thanks Julian, you've done a very thorough job in producing and
> documenting the patch.
> 
> In future, if you send a patch, please do it as public git branches so
> I can easily pull (and you can easily rebase when the target repo
> updates). Or alternatively you can send patches on Github as pull
> requests.
> Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-mysql/mariadb-10.1.git/
> (mirror https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.1)

OK, I'll make a branch.  Ah, have done, but of course I don't have
write-access to the pkg-mysql repository to create it.  How can I make
a public branch on alioth?  Anyhow, I've just made a fork on github
and created a pull request there.

> I am a bit afraid of applying this patch, as we are quite late in the
> release cycle, and I already did this week extensive jessie->stretch
> tests this week and I didn't come across any issues. Applying new
> patches to the maintainer scripts seems a bit risky as there could be
> some severe unintentional regressions. Also, because doing so much
> testing I am quite worn out right now and afraid of making mistakes
> simply because of being tired.

Indeed; I do appreciate this.  I don't know what others think -
could/should this wait for the next release cycle?

> Is there anybody on the pkg-maint-mysql team that could step in here,
> review the patch as such, and maybe even apply it on a test branch,
> build, and do some testing?

:-)

Best wishes,

   Julian