[debian-mysql] [Pkg-mysql-commits] r1208 - / trunk trunk/debian trunk/debian/patches

[Monty Taylor]

Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 30.04.2008, 03:50 +0000 schrieb Monty Taylor:
>> Log:
>> * Added the eBay patch for variable sized Memory engine rows.
> 
> I'm wondering if we really should add unofficial feature patches to the
> Debian MySQL packages, like this or the sphinx storage engine one.
> 
> Last weekend I thought about adding the microslow patch from Percona and
> decided against it:

Yeah - it's an interesting quandry.

I think (know) we're about to start seeing a slew of community-supported
MySQL trees pop up. Much of this goodness will be beneficial, but some
will not be... but we don't really want to be in the business of
maintaining forks.

I don't know what the answer is. But perhaps you're right and we should
at least avoid them for now.

> - Bugreports need to get reproduced with the unpatched source before
>   forwarding it to the MySQL BTS.
> - Upgrading to a new MySQL upstream release needs additional work when 
>   one of the patches doesn't work with the new MySQL release.
> - We'll really get in trouble if one of these patches in a stable Debian
>   release will conflict with a security fix.