On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 00:12:52 +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > + * Security: improved hardening flags (hardening=+all,-pie) > > > > I'd prefer to defer to the Security Team on this one, as to whether > > they'd generally accept it in packages they were releasing. > > Lintian complained that hardening-wrapper is deprecated so it had to > be replaced with this. > That's irrelevant for stable. We keep changes in stable to a minimum. You can go have fun and break stuff in unstable, not in stable.
[...] > > + * Adding mysqld_multi.server_lsb-header.patch, provides LSB headers for > > + example initscript (Closes: #778762) > > + * Adding mysqld_multi_confd.patch, makes mysqld_multi reading conf.d > > + (Closes: #778761) > > > > This seems a little featureish. The only packages shipping files in the > > conf.d folder appear to be MySQL variants, so I guess this isn't too > > bad. > > Very few people run multiple different mysqld daemons on the same > system, and this thing must have been broken for a long time. Here > somebody scratched their own itch and fixed the buggy scripts > inherited from older packaging. > > These have been well reviewed and deemed safe changes. It would be a > shame not to release these fixes. There are very few contributors in > the MySQL packaging team and we should value the work of new people > who show up and provide ready-made patches. > Same as above. Cheers, Julien
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