[debian-mysql] Bug#759309: Bug#759309: Bug#759309: Must not Provide: libmysqlclient-dev

[Kristian Nielsen]

Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> writes:

> Upstream MariaDB only ships with libmysqlclient.so, while I have
> changed the Debian version to ship the library using the name
> libmariadbclient.so, because I got feedback that it is not good policy
> for the MariaDB package to ship a so name that also exists in another

It seems to me that based on this, it would be reasonable to drop the
Provides: libmysqlclient-dev for the native Debian packages of
libmariadbclient-dev.

If a Debian package wants to build with the MariaDB client library, it can
use libmariadbclient-dev as a build dependency. If it wants to use the
Oracle/MySQL client library, it can use libmysqlclient-dev instead. It
actually seems to be wrong for one -dev package to Provide: the other, doesn't
it?

In the third-party repository packages, we had the Provides:
libmysqlclient-dev. This was necessary, because the real libmysqlclient-dev
package was not co-installable with libmariadbclient. So it became impossible
to build any package that depended on libmysqlclient-dev without uninstalling
the MariaDB server; the Provides: libmysqlclient-dev solves this.

But if I understand correctly, now it is possible to install packages
libmariadbclient and package libmysqlclient-dev at the same time. So the
problem should no longer apply.

(libmariadbclient-dev and libmysqlclient-dev are not co-installable, but it is
my understanding that this is not a problem as such, as it is only a build
dependency, not a runtime dependency).

Hope this helps,

 - Kristian.