Hi,
I'm the Debian packager of phpMyadmin. I've quite recently taken over the package, and while we were approaching a new release (Etch) I haven't made extensive changes, but now Etch is out I plan to polish it up quite a bit.
In that context I was wondering the following: we're currently packaging from the 'all-locales.tar.gz' from the website, but I'm considering to switch to the 'utf8-only' tarball. It's quite a bit smaller so it will reduce the installed size for users.
Do you think using the utf8-only tarball would cause problems or is it a safe thing to do?
Otherwise, if you as upstream authors have any comments on the Debian packaging, I'm glad to hear it.
Thanks, Thijs
Hi
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:36:07 +0200 Thijs Kinkhorst thijs@debian.org wrote:
I'm the Debian packager of phpMyadmin. I've quite recently taken over the package, and while we were approaching a new release (Etch) I haven't made extensive changes, but now Etch is out I plan to polish it up quite a bit.
In that context I was wondering the following: we're currently packaging from the 'all-locales.tar.gz' from the website, but I'm considering to switch to the 'utf8-only' tarball. It's quite a bit smaller so it will reduce the installed size for users.
Do you think using the utf8-only tarball would cause problems or is it a safe thing to do?
It is IMHO safe thing for Lenny as old MySQL servers are getting really rare.
Otherwise, if you as upstream authors have any comments on the Debian packaging, I'm glad to hear it.
If you need any help in packaging Debian, feel free to contact me, I'm also Debian Developer...
BTW: Servers array fixup in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php should not be needed, phpMyAdmin does this anyway later.
Hi Michal,
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:01 +0200, Michal Čihař wrote:
Do you think using the utf8-only tarball would cause problems or is it a safe thing to do?
It is IMHO safe thing for Lenny as old MySQL servers are getting really rare.
Thanks. Just to be clear: what exactly is meant with "old MySQL servers"?
BTW: Servers array fixup in /usr/share/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php should not be needed, phpMyAdmin does this anyway later.
As said I'm probably going to overhaul the package, and I'll take this into consideration. I'll let you know when the new package has arrived so you can supply your feedback on it, that would be appreciated :)
thanks, Thijs
Hi
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:08:37 +0200 Thijs Kinkhorst thijs@debian.org wrote:
Thanks. Just to be clear: what exactly is meant with "old MySQL servers"?
Older than 4.1 which has proper support for charsets.
As said I'm probably going to overhaul the package, and I'll take this into consideration. I'll let you know when the new package has arrived so you can supply your feedback on it, that would be appreciated :)
As soon as it is in unstable, I'll notice it ;-).
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