[debian-mysql] Bug#864607: noisy mariadb-server-10.1 installation

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: reassign -1 perl 5.24.1-3
Control: tag -1 stretch
Control: retitle -1 perl: noisy about "Unescaped left brace in regex" on upgrades to stretch

On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:59:38 +0300 Juha Heinanen <jh at tutpro.com> wrote:
> During 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from jessie to stretch, this got printed
> to console:
> 
> Setting up mariadb-common (10.1.23-9+deb9u1) ...
> Selecting previously unselected package mariadb-server-10.1.
> (Reading database ... 72727 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../mariadb-server-10.1_10.1.23-9+deb9u1_amd64.deb ...
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.*?)(\\)?\${ <-- HERE ([^{}]+)}(.*)$/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 72.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^}]+)}/ at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 30.
> 
> Please fix so that the deprecated info does not get printed.  If every
> package would be as noisy, user couldn't comprehend anything about what
> is going on.

perl probably should silence this warning for stretch. Especially
if it triggers on perl packages from jessie during the upgrade
(because perl was upgraded first, and the package in question will
be upgraded soon. Or should debconf in jessie be "fixed"?


Andreas