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Re: Old bug, old module - What should be right?



Hi,

practically, you are probably ok to do so. Theoretically, a check for
the SQL-Server or a configuration option might be better.

My 2¢

Joachim

Am Samstag, den 05.03.2005, 10:16 -0600 schrieb Gunnar Wolf:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to close a pretty old bug ( #41890! :-O ). It requires a minor
> change in libapache-dbilogger-perl - Setting the column "user" to a
> SQL-legal name (it seems it was meant for MySQL, which is quite
> relaxed on what it accepts - I don't know if this problem would still
> show up with a current Postgres, but using 'user' as a column name is
> definitively not nice).
> 
> Apache::DBILogger is dead upstream (last activity seen in 1998). I can
> make the change and get away with it, but existing users will be
> bitten by it... This same version (modulo very minor maintainer
> changes) is present in the Woody release, so it might be in widespread
> use... I will add notice of my change to NEWS.Debian... Besides this,
> does anybody think it should send a debconf note or something like
> that, highly visible?
> 
> Greetings,
> 
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