[Pkg-dns-devel] Bug#851586: pdns-backend-mysql: fails to upgrade from 'jessie': mysql said: ERROR 1074 (42000) at line 15: Column length too big for column 'comment' (max = 21845); use BLOB or TEXT instead

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

Control: tags -1 - wontfix

* Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> [170116 18:36]:
> On 2017-01-16 17:56, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > The SQL upgrade scripts have been patched to work with MariaDB
> > instead. As long as MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB 10.x do not align their
> > limitations, this will stay as is (or until Debian picks MySQL
> > again).
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> Should the package come with a Breaks: mysql-server-5.7 in that case?

Doubt it - the used mysql server may very well be remote and/or the
local one may be used for something different.

> Does the package work on Ubuntu (which should have mysql-server-5.7 as
> default?)

Interesting. Probably not then?


MariaDB conditional comment syntax:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/comment-syntax/
Unfortunately this has no "else" clause...

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christian hofstaedtler <zeha at debian.org>