Bug#671115: [debian-mysql] Bug#671115: transition: mysql-5.5

[Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>]

I think those are defensible although I take the point that the 
changelog is misleading. For example we just stripped out a lot of stuff 
that used procps and the upstream move to cmake removed a lot of 
explicit build dependencies so it was natural to ask whether these are 
still required. I will look again at debian/rules but I think it is good 
to get rid of unnecessarty dependencies.


On 08/05/12 10:15, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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
>
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