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On 07/15/2013 04:32 PM, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On 15/07/13 09:26, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Dolph,
>>
>> If you do that, then you will be breaking Debian packages, as they
>> expect Sqlite as the default, for example when using
>> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install keystone (if you choose
>> MySQL, then you need to enter admin credentials to setup the db). I will
>> receive tons of piupart failures reports if we can't upgrade with SQLite.
>>
>> I would really be disappointed if this happens, and get into situations
>> where I have RC bugs which I can't realistically close by myself.
>>
>> So really, if it is possible, continue to support it, at least from one
>> release to the next.
> 
> Why not just change the default for Debian?  Sqlite isn't particularly
> useful for actual deployments anyway.

Because that is the only backend that will work without providing
credentials on the keyboard, so it is the only one that will work in a
non-interactive session of apt-get (which is used for all automated
tests in Debian, including piuparts).

Thomas