[debian-mysql] Renaming mysql->mariadb, maintainer script refactoring, Shellcheck etc

[Tuukka Pasanen]

Hello,

I've looked the MR and it's LGTM. Have you upstreamed these scripts that 
I missed?

Tuukka

On 2023-06-07 07:21, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>> This is a little bit painful to review 1/2 already upstream patches
>> with some changes. And then later review the same thing in a different
>> form when they make it upstream.
> You can skip reviewing the commits that are cherry-picked from
> upstream and only look at the commits that are new.
> Also, I think that it is more important that Tuukka reads this, as I
> am basically helping him complete the Shellcheck project did partially
> in upstream commits.
>
>> Do you want to use sid as a packaging change test environment? Can't
>> we improve the CI infrastructure to test these better than users?
> I can't improve buildbot.mariadb.org, there is no way to test changes
> or submit improvements in a sensible way. You can copy what I have
> done in Salsa-CI into upstream if you want.
>
> Naturally we should strive to have CI that catches as much as
> possible, but the additional feedback we get from having the packages
> in Debian and going through the full Debian QA and feedback and review
> from other Debian maintainers is priceless so to say :)
>
>> Alternative was getting non-LTS versions like 11.0.2 GA into sid a way
>> to get new features to users quicker. Our 10.7 -> 10.10 received
>> little testing because of less distro support which made it hard to
>> get changes until they were almost out the door on 10.11.
> My goal is to stabilize 10.11 now in Debian and in parallel upstream
> all changes that are stable and close the delta with upstream.
>
> Note that this is the first version with versionless package names in
> Debian officially, so we need to weed out some of the remaining corner
> cases. The fact that the package names have no versions anymore will
> make it easier to import 11.2 or 11.3 later on, and maybe adopt a
> policy of always having the latest in Debian (as you suggest). Depends
> a bit how much there are regressions upstream and if we will get
> another LTS in time for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or should we stick with
> MariaDB 10.11 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
>
> - Otto
>
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