[debian-mysql] My issues with the structure of the mysql-5.5 package

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Nicholas Bamber <nicholas at periapt.co.uk> wrote:
>>> replace                  n/a [would have to have separate docs directory]
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>>
>> That's a very generic package name. Shouldn't something less generic be
>> used?
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> You mean "replace".

Yes

> Please feel free to suggest a better one. Definitely not
> "mysql-replace" as it really has nothing to do with MySQL.

Does Debian have some guidelines for this?

>>
>>> mysql-common             n/a
>>> mysql-source-5.5         mysql-common
>>> mysql-testsuite-core-5.5 mysql-common
>>> mysql-testsuite-5.5      mysql-testsuite-core-5.5
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>> What's the difference between core and non-core?
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> In this case core consists of all the binaries and non-core the test scripts
> and result files.

Are the testsuite binaries useful without the test scripts?

> In this case core is "mysql" and "mysqlcheck". And I made an error. It's
> non-core that depends on libmysqlclient18 (via
>>> libdbd-mysql-perl).

I think listing the contents (instead of the dependencies) would be useful.

-- 
Olaf