[debian-mysql] Heads up to release team about MariadB 10.3

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:44 AM Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
<pochu at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 18/01/2019 10:59, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:37 PM Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> wrote:
> >> That was with the old libdbd-mariadb-perl, and the new one (which was fine)
> >> wasn't migrating due to a build-dep on the new mysql-defaults, which was blocked
> >> on mariadb-10.3, blocked on libdbd-mariadb-perl... I cheated a bit and let
> >> libdbd-mariadb-perl ignore that build-dep and migrate to testing ahead of
> >> mysql-defaults, so now mariadb-10.3 and mysql-defaults should be happy to
> >> migrate soon (once the age requirements are met).
> >
> > Isn't the migration script capable of migrating all 3 at once automatically?
>
> The problem was that the old libdbd-mariadb-perl didn't work with the new
> mariadb-10.3, so without a Breaks relationship in mariadb-10.3, there was an
> autopkgtests regression that was blocking the mariadb-10.3 migration. Yes, a
> Breaks could have been added, but that would have caused extra delays and I
> wanted to avoid that.

Do the autopkgtests run with versions from testing or with versions
from unstable?
If from unstable, how is the old libdbd-mariadb-perl version (in
testing) relevant?



-- 
Olaf