Am 26.01.2014 20:32, schrieb Peter Milesson: > > > On 2014-01-26 19:30, Paul J Stevens wrote: >> On 26-01-14 18:04, Peter Milesson wrote: >> >>> Really great news! I don't know why the Slackware packagers keep >>> distributing this version. I had a check just now, and the current >>> version of MariaDB is still 5.5.32. I must send them a message about >>> this. May I quote you Paul? >> >> No sure where you want to quote me, but the MariaDB bugreport I refered >> to was really very solid, easy to reproduce, and fixed promptly. No >> discussion there. >> >> Maybe nobody filed a bug against their package yet. I guess not many >> people use mysql/mariadb to retrieve blobs in a ordered fashion. For >> anyone who actually does, the bug is critical. >> >> > I've compiled and installed MariaDB 5.5.34. Now everything is purring like a > satisfied cat :-) > > The Slackware community is seriously conservative
which would for me mean avoid major upgrades > and some hard facts are needed to convince them to update. > Otherwise I'm afraid that this unfortunate MariaDB version > will continue to be included, until there will be a new > major release (probably at least a year away) which is pretty stupid 5.5.x releases are not done for fun - the X is for bugfixes not breaking compatibility, the bug we speak about is one reason .x releases exists at all
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