Bug#836962: Uninstallable in testing when default-libmysqlclient-dev is installed

[Enrico Zini]

Package: libgdal-dev
Version: 2.1.1+dfsg-1+b1
Severity: serious

Hello,

now that default-libmysqlclient-dev is in testing and it depends on
libmariadbclient-dev-compat, libgdal-dev is not installable anymore:

  apt-get install libgdal-dev
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:
  
  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libgdal-dev : Depends: libmysqlclient-dev but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

It's probably enough to have libgdal-dev depend on
default-libmysqlclient-dev instead of libmysqlclient-dev, as per
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/09/msg00000.html


Thanks,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libgdal-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev                              2.23-5
ii  libcurl4-gnutls-dev [libcurl-ssl-dev]  7.50.1-1
pn  libdap-dev                             <none>
pn  libgdal1h                              <none>
ii  libgeos-dev                            3.5.0-4
pn  libgif-dev                             <none>
ii  libhdf4-alt-dev                        4.2.12-1
ii  libhdf5-dev                            1.8.16+docs-8
ii  libjasper-dev                          1.900.1-debian1-2.4+deb8u1
ii  libjpeg-dev                            1:1.5.0-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo-dev [libjpeg-dev]      1:1.5.0-1
ii  libltdl-dev                            2.4.6-2
pn  libmysqlclient-dev                     <none>
ii  libnetcdf-dev                          1:4.4.1-2
ii  libpng-dev                             1.6.24-2
ii  libpq-dev                              9.6~rc1-1
pn  libspatialite-dev                      <none>
ii  libsqlite3-dev                         3.14.1-1
pn  libwebp-dev                            <none>
pn  libxerces-c-dev                        <none>
ii  unixodbc-dev                           2.3.1-4.1

libgdal-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libgdal-dev suggests:
pn  libgdal-doc  <none>