Hi Paul, Thanks for clearification. At least we are 2 users and over the years I'm really happy with debian. ;)
Regards Rai Am 01.03.2023 um 16:13 schrieb Paul Boddie: > On Wednesday, 1 March 2023 07:24:23 CET Otto Kekäläinen wrote: >> >> The fact that his issue surfaced now about something that changed in >> Debian 1-2 years ago and was changed upstream 2 years ago confuses me. >> Also I don't have any easy way to fire up a container and reproduce >> the issue. > > It isn't really so mysterious, and I tried to explain it in the original bug > I > filed against Kontact: > > 1. A change in MariaDB 10.6 broke Qt's MySQL support back in 2021. > > 2. Someone decided to let this change leak into MariaDB 10.3.38. > > 3. A Debian package for 10.3.38 was finalised in the last couple of weeks and > arrived last week. > > 4. Suddenly, Akonadi cannot connect to MySQL properly and Kontact won't show > the contents of mail messages any more. > > How the change leaked is more mysterious. However, going to the 10.3 branch > of > the server, following the link to libmariadb and the mariadb-connector-c > repository and using the "blame" tool yields this commit: > > https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/mariadb-connector-c/commit/ > d204e83104222844251b221e9be7eb3dd9f8d63d > > That was made two months ago, but I imagine that the workflow propagated it > in > various branches for a while before a release was actually made. > >> However, as a clear patch was suggested I did it in >> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.3/-/commits/bugfix/1031863-> >> libmariadb3-version-id > > I realised that I had messed up my own patch, explaining why I didn't see any > change in behaviour with my revised package, but rebuilding again and testing > now, I can confirm that the above patch fixes the problem. Reverting to the > distribution-supplied libqt5sql5-mysql package and using the patched version > of libmariadb3 makes Kontact and Akonadi work again. > >> The the Salsa runner comes back online and pipeline works again, there >> will be build artifacts available at >> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.3/-/jobs/4004950 and >> you can download the libmariadb3 with this patched and test if it >> fixes your mail client situation. > > It seems that the pipeline failed, but I managed to build a revised package > anyway. > > I have no idea about whether other software has been broken by this, but > anyone using the distribution-supplied packages for libmariadb3 and > libqt5sql5-mysql will have seen programs break. > > Maybe only the Akonadi stack is affected as a consequence. Since people tend > to abandon the KDE groupware programs every time something breaks, it is > entirely possible that there are relatively few users left to complain. > > All this effort for a single-token change in a file that shouldn't have been > made in the first place! > > Paul
