[debian-mysql] Bug#917793: Bug#917793: Automatically update MariaDB plugin paths libmariadb18 -> libmariadb19 on upgrade from MariaDB 10.1 to MariaDB 10.3

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Olaf van der Spek <ml at vdspek.org> kirjoitti su 30. joulukuuta 2018 klo
14.24:

> On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 1:21 PM Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Package: mariadb-10.3
> > Version: 10.3.11-1
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: newcomer
> >
> >
> > The new MariaDB 10.3 has it's library so version upgraded from 18 to 19.
> This means that the plugin files will also reside in another directory. If
> any of the plugins were active before the upgrade, they may fail to load
> after the upgrade since the path has changed.
> >
> > Some kind of automatic migration should be done in the
> mariadb-server-10.3 preinstall/postinstall scripts.
>
> Shouldn't relative paths be used to avoid problems like this altogether?
>

Maybe. Want to write up a proof-of-consept how that would work?
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