Bug#671115: transition: mysql-5.5

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 08.05.2012 10:04, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, May  1, 2012 at 22:52:22 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> >
> > At some point we need to transition from mysql-5.1 to mysql-5.5. We
> > would like to do this before the freeze though we appreciate that 
> > time
> > is now short. We arrived at this position as the Debian MySQL Team 
> > became
> > increasingly understaffed. It is better now but not ideal.
> >
> > We certainly will get mysql-5.5 into unstable in the next few weeks.
> > The question
> > is can we migrate all the dependencies over and drop mysql-5.1 
> > before the
> > freeze?
> *sigh* apparently you uploaded this to sid without even waiting for 
> an
> answer, so we now have an uncoordinated libmysqlclient SONAME bump on
> our hands...

Also, these changes look very wrong:

   * Removed unnecessary build dependencies:
     - procps as it is required by cmake, cf. #96768
     - zlib1g newer version required by cmake
     - libtool obsoleted by cmake
     - file required by debhelper

If you need the packages as part of your build process, you need to be 
build-depending on them.  There's a reason that policy explicitly 
mentions not relying on transitive dependencies.

> > As far as I can see the upstream packages that are likely to require
> > recompilation are:
> That's an awfully long list to be breaking without coordination.  I'm
> not amused.

Indeed.

Regards,

Adam