[debian-mysql] MariaDB packaging status: testing help needed

[Kristian Nielsen]

Bjoern Boschman <bjoern at boschman.de> writes:

> first, why do you build-depend on libreadline-gplv2-dev? I'd prefer
> using 'normal' libreadline-dev as it is available in squeeze as well
> (for backporting). Or is there some GPL v2 vs. v3 issue?

Yes. MariaDB is derived from MySQL, which is licensed under GPL version 2
only. AFAIK, newest libreadline is GPL v3+, which is not compatible with GPL
v2.

> secondly I got the following build error during compile on a squeeze
> based system:
>
> dh_install: libmariadbclient18 missing files
> (usr/lib/*/libmysqlclient.so.*), aborting

Strange. Maybe you can check if this is present in latest version of the
packaging, and if so, try to figure out what happened to the
libmysqlclient.so.* files during install?

 - Kristian.