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[Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Reindl!

On Jul 13, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 13.07.2017 um 11:55 schrieb Sergei Golubchik:
> > On Jul 13, Reindl Harald wrote:
> >> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-1027-changelog/
> >>
> >> i thought xtradb is gone in 10.2.x
> >>
> >> is it back now with 10.2.7 or is the changelog a random wild mix of
> >> commits with no context to the version of the release?
> > 
> > Neither. Changelog is generated as "all commits that are present in the
> > 10.2.7 history, but were not present in the 10.2.6 history". And all
> > commits in 10.1 are merged into 10.2 eventually (because many 10.1
> > bugfixes apply to 10.2 too).
> > 
> > So whatever was done to XtraDB in 10.1 it will be part of 10.2 revision
> > history, even though XtraDB itself is disabled in 10.2 (and does not
> > even compile there).
> > 
> > I agree that it's confusing, but what can we do? Manually filter out all
> > commits that contain the string "xtradb" from the changelog?
> 
> well, at least some filters make sense because things like "Update 
> xtradb and innodb version to 5.6.36" are pure nonsense when innodb in 
> 10.2 AFAIK is 5.7 and so the complete changelog feels very useless and 
> instead beeing helpful it spreads doubt how that whole stuff works at 
> all when random pieces seems to get merged bewteen versions or at least 
> the changelog says so

Okay. https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-13312

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
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