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

[Steve McIntyre]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 02:52:34PM +0200, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
>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?

Definitely, *unless* you're actually providing a cleanly compatible
implementation in all respects - headers, libraries, API and ABI. If
you're not, then don't pretend to be in the packaging system.

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve at einval.com
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