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8 October 2016

Norbert Tretkowski: Gajim plugins packaged for Debian

Wolfgang Borgert started to package some of the available Gajim plugins for Debian. At the time of writing, the OMEMO, HTTP Upload and URL Image Preview plugins are available in testing and unstable. More plugins will follow.

18 August 2016

Norbert Tretkowski: No MariaDB MaxScale in Debian

Last weekend I started working on a MariaDB MaxScale package for Debian, of course with the intention to upload it into the official Debian repository. Today I got pointed to an article by Michael "Monty" Widenius he published two days ago. It explains the recent license change of MaxScale from GPL so BSL with the release of MaxScale 2.0 beta. Justin Swanhart summarized the situation, and I could not agree more. Looks like we will not see MaxScale 2.0 in Debian any time soon...

17 June 2011

Norbert Tretkowski: Twitter

I reactivated my Twitter account yesterday, but do not expect too many tweets.

13 February 2011

Norbert Tretkowski: MySQL source tree available in Debian as binary package

MySQL supports a plugin interface since 5.1, which enables creation of server components. Plugins can be loaded at server startup, or loaded and unloaded at runtime without restarting the server. Most of these plugins require the full MySQL source tree during their build, which was not available in Debian as a binary package until I uploaded 5.1.54-2 to unstable last week. I had this item on my TODO list since MySQL 5.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable, because it is not possible for a Debian source package to build-depend on another source package. Thankfully, Clint Byrum from Ubuntu sent me a small patch which added the new binary package.

The first package making use of the new mysql-source-5.1 package is HandlerSocket, a NoSQL plugin for MySQL. It is currently waiting in Debian's NEW queue for approval, and I am sure we will see more plugins/packages (XtraBackup from Percona is another well known candidate) making use of the new binary package in Debian soon.

12 February 2011

Norbert Tretkowski: MySQL 5.5 and Debian

Since MySQL 5.5 was declared stable in December last year, I regulary receive e-mails from people asking when it will get uploaded to Debian. The good thing is that the initial conversion from automake to cmake has already been done by Clint Byrum from Ubuntu, and we are going to use his work as a basis for our packages. The not so good thing is bug #59078, an issue in libmysqlclient which breaks ABI compatibility. According to Lenz Grimmer from Oracle the MySQL upstream developers are already looking at it.

I am still not sure if it is a good idea to upload MySQL 5.5 in the current state to experimental, but I am definitely not going to upload it to unstable until this issue is fixed.

13 September 2010

Norbert Tretkowski: Microblogging, part 2

When I blogged about microblogging using Twitter a while ago, I got some suggestions regarding Identi.ca in the comments. I did not know about Identi.ca at that time, but decided to give it a try. Identi.ca is a service like Twitter based on StatusNet, an open source microblogging platform. After using both services in parallel for a while, with constant frustration about the unreliable Identi.ca -> Twitter gateway, I now finally decided to completely drop my account on Twitter.

Unfortunately something got miserably wrong while playing with the Identi.ca -> Twitter gateway last week, I somehow lost all my subscribers and subscriptions, so please resubscribe to my account.

6 September 2010

Norbert Tretkowski: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org

More than seven years after I initially started the backports.org project, it finally happened: backports.org moved to backports.debian.org! Alexander wrote an announcement including some technical details, the most important point from a users perspective is to update your sources.list entry to:
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
Thanks a lot to all people who made it happen, especially Alexander Wirt and J rg Jaspert!

Norbert Tretkowski: Backports service becoming official

More than seven years after I initially started the backports.org project together with Team(ix), my employer at that time, it finally happened: backports.org became official last weekend, and moved to backports.debian.org! Alexander Wirt wrote a blog entry including some technical details, and there is also an official announcement on the debian-announce mailinglist. The most important point from a users perspective is to update your sources.list entry to:
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
Thanks a lot to all people who made it happen, especially Alexander Wirt and J rg Jaspert!

11 June 2010

Norbert Tretkowski: DRBD source dropped from Debian unstable

OK, not really... DRBD 8.3.7 is an official part of the Linux kernel since 2.6.33, and thanks to Dann Frazier we also have a backport of that patch in Debian's 2.6.32 kernel as well.

Until yesterday, the DRBD source package in Debian built a -utils and a -source package, the latter was now dropped. From now on, users no longer need to recompile the DRBD module after a kernel upgrade.

30 March 2010

Norbert Tretkowski: MySQL distro meeting in Brussels

Last month I spent two days in Belgium, after I got invited to the MySQL distro meeting. It was a non-public meeting with some people from Sun Microsystems and MySQL maintainers from different Linux distributions. It took place directly after FOSDEM (which I unfortunately could not attend due to personal reasons) at the Sun Microsystems Belgium office in Brussels. It was great to meet with Mathias Gug from the Ubuntu Server team in person. He had some really good ideas on how we could reduce the differences between MySQL in Debian and Ubuntu in the future. As a consequence, Debian will soon switch from Subversion to Bazaar for maintenance of most MySQL packages.

However, we were not only talking about the MySQL Server itself, but also about MySQL Cluster, MySQL Proxy, the MySQL Connectors and the MySQL GUI Tools. Giuseppe Maxia has a more detailed blog entry about the event, including the whole list of participants and some pictures. I fully agree with him: The meeting was a success, we also had a lot of fun, and we should do that more often!

Thanks a lot to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring, and of course to Lenz Grimmer for organizing the event.

4 December 2009

Norbert Tretkowski: MySQL currently not available in Debian testing

Due to a bug in britney, the Debian testing migration tool, MySQL is currently not available in testing. The issue is known and being worked on already, and it is documented in the Debian bug tracking system.

11 May 2009

Norbert Tretkowski: New OpenPGP key

Because of the latest theoretical attack against the SHA-1 digest algorithm (details), I created a new OpenPGP key:
pub 4096R/2789887A 2009-05-11
Key fingerprint = 6454 DC58 6A34 9B42 719A 1E3A 2F66 E80F 2789 887A
uid Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>
uid Norbert Tretkowski <nobse@debian.org>
sub 4096R/54CE9E32 2009-05-11
It's signed with my old key 0x0F7A8D01, uploaded to keyservers, and will replace my old key soon.

21 February 2009

Norbert Tretkowski: First backports for lenny available

Alexander Wirt just wrote a mail to our mailinglist to announce that lenny-backports suite is ready for uploads. We will of course continue supporting etch-backports with security updates as long as etch will be supported by the Debian security team.

Happy backporting!

15 February 2009

Norbert Tretkowski: Help with Debian MySQL packages required

During the last few months I was the only person working on the MySQL packages in Debian, and I could really need some help. Currently there is MySQL 5.0.32 in etch, 5.0.51a in lenny, 5.0.75 in unstable and 5.1.31 in experimental, and I am also trying to get MySQL Cluster and MySQL Workbench into Debian. All in all it is way too much work for only one developer.

If you are an interested Debian developer/maintainer with a good knowledge in MySQL and shared library packaging, drop me a mail.

12 February 2009

Norbert Tretkowski: MySQL Workbench for Debian

Based on the official Ubuntu 8.04 package from Sun (thanks to Alfredo Kojima) I prepared a package of MySQL Workbench 5.1.7 for Debian. I am going to upload it to experimental soon, in the meanwhile it is available (amd64 only) from here:

http://people.debian.org/~nobse/mysql-workbench/

Feedback appreciated!

24 January 2009

Norbert Tretkowski: Microblogging

Last week I finally decided to try out microblogging using Twitter. I am not going to post much personal stuff there (e.g. you will not find postings like "I am going to take a shower" there), but mostly technical (especially Debian and MySQL related) stuff, here are my updates.

25 December 2008

Norbert Tretkowski: OurDelta

The MySQL packages in Debian still do not (and will never) include inofficial feature patches (beside the redirect output of error.log to syslog in MySQL 5.0, which is now part of the official MySQL 5.1 releases) like the ones from Percona or Google. Of course we add important bugfixes from newer (not yet released) versions of MySQL, but no feature patches.

If you are interested in a patched version of the Debian MySQL packages, take a look at OurDelta, their builds include patches (complete list) like mirrored binlog and InnoDB freeze. Upgrading from the official Debian packages of MySQL to the builds from OurDelta should work without problems, but please use Launchpad when reporting bugs against their packages, and not the Debian Bug Tracking System.

24 December 2008

Norbert Tretkowski: MySQL 5.0.75 uploaded to Debian

This week MySQL released version 5.0.75 of their Community Edition. The package in testing is in good shape, so I had time to prepare and upload 5.0.75-1 to unstable, but it should work on testing as well. I also made a rebuild for etch, which is available here.

4 December 2008

Norbert Tretkowski: Dropping MySQL Cluster support from Debian (for a while)

In the next upload of MySQL 5.1.30 to the experimental branch of Debian we are going to drop MySQL Cluster support from the standard MySQL packages. I already wrote something about the future of MySQL Cluster in Debian a while ago, this is just the first step towards a separate mysql-cluster package in Debian.

This change does not (and will never) affect the MySQL packages in etch and lenny, and unstable not until we decide to move MySQL 5.1 from experimental to unstable.

22 October 2008

Norbert Tretkowski: MySQL Customer Conference 2008

Yesterday I visited the MySQL Customer Conference in Munich, as I did last year. The agenda was quite similar to last year's agenda, but I was really surprised how much Sun hardware and software products were integrated (forced?) into most of the not so technical talks.

All in all the conference was okay, but not as good as last year.

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