[debian-mysql] Bug#1062841: Bug#1062841: mariadb: NMU diff for 64-bit time_t transition

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 09:29:53PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> About this suggested change (penging at
> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/68):

> From the announcement message
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/02/msg00000.html
> lists we can find in
> https://people.canonical.com/~vorlon/armhf-time_t/source-packages
> lists:
> ```
> mariadb: libmariadbd19
> ```

> However nothing about MariaDB is elsewhere. This finding about
> libmariadbd19 seems like a false positive as nothing depends on it.

Lack of reverse-dependencies in the Debian archive doesn't make it a
false-positive.  It exists as a runtime library package; third party
packages including local packages on end-user systems could link against it.

> The library is used for building embedded servers and typically
> statically linked. I am not inclined to merge this change unless
> somebody points out some additional motivations why it is needed.

> If the libmariadb3 package was affected, it would be another story,
> but this libmariadbd19 is not worth renaming.

If it's inconsequential then I don't know why you care what its name is?

If it's "typically statically linked" you could stop shipping the .so
altogether, which I think is a better outcome overall for system quality if
you don't want to support it as a shared library.

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