Hello Jeroen

On 2006-02-10 Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > On 2006-02-10 Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > > > The mysql-dfsg-5.0 source packages used to produce
> > > >         mysql-server-4.1
> > > >         mysql-client-4.1
> > > > for a short while but removed those packages from the
> > > > control file. "britney"(?) now thinks that it accidently failed
> > > > to build those and blocks mysql-dfsg-5.0 from entering testing.
> > > 
> > > That's because those packages still are built by mysql-dfsg-4.1 and
> > > mysql-dfsg. Please either:
> > > - stop building those packages from there,
> >    Would uploading a new version of the mysql-dfsg-4.1 source
> >    package with a 4.1.x version i.e. a lower one as that of the
> >    zombie packages be enough? This would easily possible as the
> >    package will be removed soon anyway.
> 
> Yeah, as long as you stop building it. I'd suggest stopping to build
> anything except the library.

Ok, will do that.

> > > - request us to remove those source packages (you can retitle and
> > >   reassign this bug), or
> >    I still have 26 open bugs asking other packages no longer to link
> >    against libmysqlclient12 which is produced by the source package
> >    mysql-dfsg-4.1, too.
> 
> If people had ample time to migrate and there's no important packages
> left, this doesn't need to hold up removal. It's a manageable number of
> packages to NMU. Please consult with the release team if you have any
> suspicion that such forced migration would cause any problems. I don't
> see any really important or big packages listed that haven't migrated yet.

NMUs means more work for me *g* But I will do so next week when I've a bit
of time. 

> > > - bump the version numbers of those 4.0 and 4.1 packages so that they
> > >   would supersede the versions built by mysql-dfsg-5.0
> >    I don't like to upload a "mysql-server-4.1 (5.0.x)" package as this
> >    would confuse the users of testing/unstable. Can it be avoided?
> 
> Yeah, you'd need to epoch it to not have a weird version number.

Right, forgot about epochs. But I take the first solution to avoid ugly
epochs.

thanks,

-christian-


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