[debian-mysql] Transition plans for MySQL-5.1

[Christian Hammers]

Hello

Am Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:35:09 +0200
schrieb Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:

> Christian Hammers wrote:
> > Am Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:00:36 +0200
> > schrieb Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org>:
> > 
> >> Christian Hammers <ch at debian.org> (25/07/2009):
> >>> Nobody answered so I'm going to upload MySQL this evening and then
> >>> file bug report with priority serious against the 142 packages
> >>> currently depending on the old libmysqlclient15off. I tag them
> >>> with user pkg-mysql-maint at lists.alioth.debian.org
> >>>  usertag nnnnnn + libmysqlclient16
> >> Given you're still building libmysqlclient15-dev, packages
> >> currently needing transitioning will get built/rebuilt against the
> >> new mysql version, and won't be able to transition until mysql is
> >> ready (independently of the RC bugs about that mysql transition).
> >> Sounds like a bad plan. :(
> > 
> > 
> > Meanwhile I learned that binNMUs are enough as the package indeed
> > ships with an empty libmysqlclient15-dev package so I closed the
> > bugs.
> > 
> 
> Hi Christian,
> 
> I maintain one of the packages (rsyslog) which build-depends on
> libmysqlclient15-dev.
> I plan to make a sourceful upload soonish, so I was wondering if I
> should also change the build dependency from libmysqlclient15-dev to
> libmysqlclient-dev.
> 
> What's your recommendation as mysql maintainer?

> Will the libmysqlclient15-dev transition package go away and if so,
> when?

You don't need to do a sourceful upload just for mysql because we will
ask for Binary NMUs once MySQL has build on all archs. But if you do
one anyway we recommend to use libmysqlclient-dev so you don't have
to change once we upload MySQL-5.4 in two years or so :)

bye,

-christian-
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