[DRE-maint] Bug#845169: ruby-carrierwave: FTBFS in testing (unknown option '--initialize-insecure')

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 00:42:00 +0530 Pirate Praveen <praveen at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 00:42:58 +0000 Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
> > Maybe some build-depends needs to be versioned?
> 
> It was building fine with mysql-5.7 in unstable, this version is not yet
> migrated to testing. I think I will disable the tests until mysql-5.7
> can enter testing.

We're moving to MariaDB because of security concerns on MySQL. There have been
bug reports filed recently, though ruby-carrierwave (and others) were missed
because it doesn't depend build-depend on libmysqlclient-dev. I will let the
mysql team know about it so they can file the remaining bugs.

Basically, what you need to do is switch your build-dependency from mysql-server
to default-mysql-server. That will pull mariadb-server, which is similar to
mysql-server-5.6. Thus you may need to switch back to the previous options.

Sorry for the inconvenience. This should have happened much earlier but there
have been several delays.

Thanks,
Emilio