Bug#702280: Add alternative (build-)dependency: libmariadbclient-dev

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

2013-03-04 23:41 GMT+02:00 gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>:
> On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:23:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
>> > (Besides that, any such major changed will have to wait until after the
>> > wheezy release.)
>> In the long term (jessie), the right solution may be to build two versions
>> of libdbd-mysql-perl, one built against conventional MySQL and one built
>> against MariaDB, from the same source package.
>> This is what I do for libpam-krb5 / libpam-heimdal.
>
> Right, that might be an option, thanks for the idea.
>
> But I guess this all depends on the general future of MySQL and
> MariaDB in Debian which at least I have no idea about.


MariaDB 5.5 is now in Debian testing, and there is the pacakge
libmariadbclient18 that includes a sofile with the same name. Could
you consider changing the source package so that it would build two
versions, libdbd-mysql-perl and libdbd-mariadb-perl, with the latter
one using -lmariadbclient18 (libmariadbclient18.so, from package
libmariadbclient18)?


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