Bug #41900 | undocumented test programs should not be packaged (ma_sp_test.exe, etc.) | ||
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Submitted: | 6 Jan 2009 17:57 | Modified: | 2 Dec 2010 16:59 |
Reporter: | Timothy Smith | Email Updates: | |
Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
Category: | MySQL Server: Maria storage engine | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
Version: | 6.0,all | OS: | Any |
Assigned to: | Timothy Smith | CPU Architecture: | Any |
[6 Jan 2009 17:57]
Timothy Smith
[14 Jan 2009 16:59]
Paul DuBois
Tim, please specify exactly which programs are to be documented.
[15 Jan 2009 20:38]
Timothy Smith
OK, Docs bounces this back to dev. Triage, please consider: d4/w1/i4 (p4 checked). All clients that we distribute should accept --help option, and print something meaningful. So the description of this bug becomes: Identify all clients that are distributed, but do not properly handle --help option. Implement help in them. Add a comment on this bug listing the modified clients. After discussion, it was agreed to leave these clients in the 'bin' directory, where we also put things like mysqltest. Docs will update manual once clients have been identified and fixed.
[22 Jan 2009 0:09]
Jim Winstead
Tools that are specific to a storage engine like ma_sp_test belong to the team for that storage engine, and bugs about them shouldn't be filed into the general-purpose client category. (FWIW, I don't think these should be installed.)
[22 Jan 2009 10:31]
Guilhem Bichot
Well, the same problem exists for MyISAM. All MyISAM bugs are to be fixed by the relevant team, then the Maria team merges the fix into Maria.
[2 Dec 2010 16:59]
Joerg Bruehe
I just checked 5.1 packages on Unix, and neither "ma_sp_test" (of course: Maria engine) nor "sp_test" (might be: MyISAM) are included. This is because "sp_test" is built with the "noinstall" attribute. So these packages seem to be clean. To further verify, I checked the RPM spec files for all current versions (5.0 and up), and in none of them I found an undocumented program (= program without accompanying manual). Because of this positive result, I set this bug from "unsupported" to "closed".