Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2021-11-23-mariadb-database-restore-maybe-required: add item

[Mike Gilbert]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 10:21 PM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote:
> +On 2021-11-21, a member of the QA project accidentially de-keyworded
> +MariaDB 10.6 to address a file collision, users, who also had latest
> +dev-db/mariadb-connector-c installed, experienced (NOTE: The default
> +MySQL connector in Gentoo Linux is provided by
> +dev-db/mysql-connector-c) [Link 1].

This sentence is very difficult to read. Also, I don't think it is
relevant to call out the mistake by the QA team in a news item
intended for end users. I would rewrite this as:

On 2021-11-21, keywords for dev-db/mariadb-10.6 were removed to
address a file collision with dev-db/mariadb-connector-c. This
unintentionally triggered a version downgrade for users who had
successfully upgraded to dev-db/mariadb-10.6 already.

> +However, downgrades are not supported in MySQL/MariaDB [Link 2].
> +
> +In case you already fully upgraded to MariaDB 10.6 (which includes
> +executing mysql_upgrade command) and forcefully downgraded your
> +MariaDB instance afterwards during the time window when keywords were
> +removed, you maybe experiencing different problems:
> +
> +At best, your forcefully downgraded MariaDB instance prevented startup
> +so all you have to do is upgrade to MariaDB 10.6 again to resume
> +services.

I don't like the phrase "forcefully downgraded" here. This implies
that something happened without the user's consent. emerge would have
informed them of the downgrade before it happened. I would suggest
removing the word "forcefully" from these paragraphs.