[debian-mysql] Bug#920608: Bug#920608: mariadb-server-10.3: unknown variable 'innodb-large-prefix=on'

[Olaf van der Spek]

Op zo 27 jan. 2019 om 19:22 schreef Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org>:
> Yes, I guess it would be ideal if the upstream binary ignored unknown
> configs instead of stopping on them. Maybe Marko has some comments on
> this.
>
> In packaging we could have some preinstall script that simply added a
> comment to all lines with deprecated config items in the configs, and
> would thus handle the migration automatically.
> Here is the commit about the changes necessary to the default configs
> in Debian: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.3/commit/ae10a7fca8ddbc4f448f6a106440e9d8cbe14eac
>
> Would you Olaf want to contribute to the maintainer scripts and write
> up some sed commands etc that would do this?

Are scripts allowed to touch conf files? I think not.
This should be solved upstream such that everybody benefits.

-- 
Olaf