Hello Nobody answered so I'm going to upload MySQL this evening and then file bug report with priority serious against the 142 packages currently depending on the old libmysqlclient15off. I tag them with user [email protected] usertag nnnnnn + libmysqlclient16
bye, -christian- Am Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:09:33 +0200 schrieb Christian Hammers <[email protected]>: > Hello Release-Team > > We packaged MySQL-5.1 in experimental and reached a state where the > packages could enter unstable. Along with the new upstream version > comes a change from libmysqlclient15 to libmysqlclient16 which is > a build-dep for a lot of packages. > > When would you want us to do the upload to unstable? > > Are there any other things we should consider except those on > Wiki:TransitionBestPractices? > > BTW, in #450535 we were asked to think about symlinking > libmysqlclient.so.16 to libmysqlclient_r.so.16 because it would mean > less problems for e.g. Apache which uses other libraries who sometimes > link against one and sometimes the other. But as libmysqlclient_r is > lacking the global my_errno variable they are not binary compatible so > we stick with two different libraries even if both have the same > shared library symbol "libmysqlclient_16". Do you agree on that? > > bye, > > -christian- > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
