Excerpts from Olaf van der Spek's message of Tue Feb 14 01:43:46 -0800 2012: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Clint Byrum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right now we can't ship backports of mysqld easily in Ubuntu backports, > > because it requires testing all of the reverse depends of libmysqlclient. > > What kind of testing? > Isn't a newer version backwards compatible? >
Smoke test. ABI must be guaranteed, and while we can detect and scan and try our best, sometimes ABI is a tricky monster, so we require that backports have all their reverse deps smoke tested. > > In order to do a backport, one has to remove libmysqlclient from the > > installation, which is not as easy as it sounds since the client programs > > link against it. > > What about excluding the client programs too? > I'm still failing to see where the library should be coupled with the server. If you add something to the server, add it to the library. Fine, but don't force users to upgrade the library just because they wanted to upgrade the server. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
