Re: Refreshing mysql-connector-java
hi,
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 07:47:56PM +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 10:22:50AM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > Hi Security Team,
> >
> > What is your view on updating mysql-connector-java 5.1.42->5.1.49 for
> > Stretch?
>
> We can update to 5.1.49, yes. We've had to update it to new 5.1.x
> releases in the past and I don't remember any issues. The fact
> that there's zero information totally sucks, but there's nothing
> we can do either (apart from removing it as we did a year ago).
>
> Looking at the debdiff from https://www.beuc.net/tmp/debian-lts/mysql-connector-java/
> the remaining change would be to change the version number to
> 5.1.49-1~deb9u1 and the targets distro to stretch-security.
I'm a bit late to the party, but just want to give my 2 cents on the
versioning scheme. Agreed here to not use the really-something
variant. usually I think this is usefull when you have rebased
soemthing to a *higher* version, but need to rollback. Example:
graphicsmagick/1.4+really1.3.35+hg16296-1
or
lxc/1:3.1.0+really3.0.4-3
(other examples exists)
So I think the proper version would be either what Moritz said,
5.1.49-1~deb9u1 or 5.1.49-*0*+deb9u1.
For practical reasons there is no difference, both work. usually it
just more points out what the upload does. 5.1.49-1~deb9u1 would give
more a hint like "this update is rebuild of 5.1.49-1 for stretch,
possibly minus/plus some additional changes". 5.1.49-0+deb9u1 (please
not the 0, not -1+deb9u1) means more something like "we imported
upstream 5.1.49 on top of the current packaging plus/minus probably
some additional changes".
Personally I would go with 5.1.49-0+deb9u1 due to the meaning, there
are other source packages which follow this schema. Other do with the
~debXuY variant. For both in any case we have 5.1.49-0+deb9u1 <=
5.1.49-1 and 5.1.49-1~deb9u1 <= 5.1.49-1.
And as usual there are as well excpetions.
Anyway, I would suggest to not use the +really syntax.
Regards,
Salvatore
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