[debian-mysql] MariaDB: oqgraph workaround for Ubuntu 14.04

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

2014-02-10 16:32 GMT+02:00 Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi>:
> Hello!
>
> 2014-02-04 12:55 GMT+02:00 Kristian Nielsen <knielsen at knielsen-hq.org>:
>>> Do you (or anybody else on this list) have any suggestions how to do
>>> the "if boost version < 1.54" in debian/rules?
>>
>> Maybe it is just me who is confused, but isn't the normal solution for this
>> to have different debian/rules for each different distro release? Then the
>> appropriate dependency can be put into the appropriate version?
>
> After discussions and review with James Page on #debian-mysql today,
> we decided to drop libboost* from the build-dependencies and at least
> for Debian sid MariaDB-5.5 will not have oqgraph. The main reason is
> that the libboost-dev package indicates that version 1.54 will be the
> only long-term supported by Debian and clinging on to 1.53 would cause
> headaches in many places. Also doing a one-solutions-for-all here does
> not seem possible, at least in a way that would not be very hacky.
>
> In backported packages the 1.49 and 1.53 can be enabled for older
> releases (as Kristian above also suggests).

This issue also applies for mariadb-10.0 in current Debian Sid and
thus I removed OQGraph from there too. In both source trees the commit
where oqgraph was disabled is tagged "disabled-oqgraph" for easy
re-visiting later.