Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>]

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>>>>> On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Mike Gilbert wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 10:21 PM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> +On 2021-11-21, a member of the QA project accidentially de-keyworded
>> +MariaDB 10.6 to address a file collision, users, who also had latest
>> +dev-db/mariadb-connector-c installed, experienced (NOTE: The default
>> +MySQL connector in Gentoo Linux is provided by
>> +dev-db/mysql-connector-c) [Link 1].

> This sentence is very difficult to read. Also, I don't think it is
> relevant to call out the mistake by the QA team in a news item
> intended for end users. I would rewrite this as:

> On 2021-11-21, keywords for dev-db/mariadb-10.6 were removed to
> address a file collision with dev-db/mariadb-connector-c. This
> unintentionally triggered a version downgrade for users who had
> successfully upgraded to dev-db/mariadb-10.6 already.

+1

News item are to provide information to users, and the details about who
did what in the past aren't necessary here. At most, keep the link to
bug 825234 for reference (but not to any specific comment).

Ulrich

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