On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 02:46:39PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Affects: mysql-5.7 > > Hello! > > Thanks for the report. The same lines are also in > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-mysql/mysql.git/tree/debian/rules#n215 > Git history shows the line is inherited way back from 5.5 times. > > As MariaDB and MySQL and functionally equvalent, we try to keep their > packaging identical as much as possible. If the packages divert, then > the amount of testing/maintenance increases. > > This is a change that should be done in both packages at the same > time, to avoid a situation that the change is reintroduced later when > somebody maintaining MariaDB compares to MySQL packages and copies > over these lines to unify assumed packaging differences.
That makes sense. And this is really not an urgent issue - certainly not needed before stretch release. Also, I'll try to modify my postrm/... patch for mysql-5.7 and submit a pull request on that, too. I assume it's on your github account likewise? Best wishes, Julian
