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

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Package: libmariadbclient-dev

2014-08-26 15:52 GMT+03:00 Kristian Nielsen <knielsen at knielsen-hq.org>:
> 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.

Yes, libmysqlclient-dev is co-installable with libmariadbclient18. The
package libmysqlclient-dev (and by extension also libmysqld-dev) is
not co-installable with libmariadbclient-dev.

Also note that the MariaDB LGPL client version passed the NEW queue
yesterday and now these new pacakges are available in experimental:
libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev, libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev-compat,
libmariadb2

I have decided to simply remove the Provides line as requested, and
despite mariadb-client-lgpl in experimental now, I will not haste to
remove the mariadb-5.5 source package generated libmariadbclient
package completely yet. I also removed the identical Provides line in
libmariadbd-dev with the same motivations described in this bug
report.

The fix is now committed in:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mariadb-5.5.git/commit/?id=bc637404c6d7bd30803f08013615d1fec160b049

Note: My sponsor hasn't responded to e-mail for some days now and
seems busy -- if you are a DD following this issue and think it really
is grave, feel free to do a non-maintainer upload of 5.5.39-2 to get
the fix out quickly. The source repo is listed above and the packaging
release process documented in debian/README.Maintainer if you are
unfamiliar with this git repo layout.