Bug#917303: Request for help with MariaDB 10.3 / libdbd-mysql-perl packaging

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Just checking: are you Georg or Gregor currently working on this
issue, and do you have any estimate when we could expect either a
patch to MariaDB Connector C or a new upload of DBD-mysql so this
issue would be resolved?

It is currently the only thing left that stops the migration of
mariadb-10.3 from Debian unstable to Debian testing. The page
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb-10.3 also lists two other
issues but they have already been solved an practically only pend for
a new upload.

pe 28. jouluk. 2018 klo 18.54 Georg Richter (georg at mariadb.com) kirjoitti:
>
> About the reconnect bug:
>
> Latest code is setting the reconnect flag correctly via mysql_options (instead of accessing internal member), so I need to  debug why it's failing.
>
> /Georg
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 1:31 PM gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:27:04 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
>>
>> > pe 28. jouluk. 2018 klo 11.09 Georg Richter (georg at mariadb.com) kirjoitti:
>> > > no clue about dbd-mysql - we reported several bugs (and sent
>> > > fixes), but didn't get feedback since more than a year. Why don't
>> > > you ship DBD-mariadb instead?
>> > Gregor Hermann, do you want to switch to DBD-mariadb instead?
>>
>> DBD-mariadb is in the archive since a couple of months:
>> https://tracker.debian.org/libdbd-mariadb-perl
>>
>> Unfortunately, it's not a 1:1 replacement for DBD-mysql and many user
>> will want to continue using the latter in their existing codebase.
>>
>> Georg, maybe you can give us pointers to the bugs and fixes you
>> mentioned above?