Bug#866931: freeciv-server: Please build server with mysql support

[Markus Koschany]

Control: tags -1 wontfix

Am 02.07.2017 um 22:48 schrieb Thomas Maaß:
> The only dependency would be libmysql-client, which is surely already installed as dependency of another package.

A dependency on the MySQL client library is not as common as a
dependency on the sqlite database which is much simpler but well suited
for freeciv-server.

> And yes, postgres should also be supported when the code supports it.

The PostgreSQL reference was for Minetest.

> One clientlib isn't a big dependency. I see much more in other packages in Debian.

A Debian package should enable sensible defaults. Sqlite is the
recommended database and already supported. If you need MySQL you have
to recompile the package and adjust it to your needs.

> But if you don't want to add this support, you should alter the docs. I only recognized the missing support when checking the dependencies or the rules file. The docs describe the mysql setup, but it isn't supported by the package. I get an error, could not connect to database, and wonder why.
> 

I don't need to alter the docs because they already describe all
available options.

/usr/share/doc/freeciv-data/README.fcdb.gz

Markus

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