<div>I would much rather abandon using debs than use what the debian project has done to mysql packaging in any production environment. If the discussion has come down to this, I did WMF a disservice by drifting away from Domas' optimized "make ; make install ; rsync unstripped binaries to prod" workflow. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In general, I find environments that don't individually package according to distro standards every part of their core application stack that gets built in-house to be more productive, and more responsive to the needs of developers and ultimately the application. When an ops team claims that building a recent version of libmemcached for a stable OS is almost impossibly hard and will take weeks because it requires backporting a debian maintainers packaging of it for an experimental distro with that distros unrelated library version <span></span>dependencies and reliance on a newer incompatible dpkg tool chain, there's probably something wrong with that workflow. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I like to rely on Linux distros for the lowest common denominator layer of the stack and related security updates. The approach that goes into building and maintaining such a beast are rather different than the concerns that go into operating a continually developed and deployed distributed application used by half a billion people. I don't see a win in trying to force the two together. </div>
<div><br></div>On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Faidon Liambotis wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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For MySQL/MariaDB, it seems that the Debian packages don't ship a -dbg<br>
package by default. That's a shame, we can ask for that. As for the rest<br>
of Asher's changes, I'd love to find a way to make stock packages work<br>
in our production setup, but I'm not sure if the maintainer would<br>
welcome the extra complexity of conditionally switching behaviors. We<br>
can try if you're willing to, Asher :)<br>
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Regards,<br>
Faidon<br>
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