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

[Kristian Nielsen]

Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> writes:

> 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?

I understand why you do not want to develop 10+ different versions of the
script in parallel now, of course - but it seems to me that eventually there
will need to be different versions of the packaging for different versions of
the distros - because once we hit stable, we would not change the packaging in
the stable versions. So once the dust settles and going forward, we only have
to maintain packaging that works on debian and ubuntu unstable - the other
releases just hang on maintenance branches that will rarely, if ever be
changed.

Then for mariadb.org 3rd-party packages, there is a separate issue. One way to
deal with this is to do as currently, where we do a couple of sed// on the
debian/* files specific to each distro, and _do_ update packaging against old
distro versions. But the native packaging could be mostly unaffected by this?

But as I said, maybe I am just confused, feel free to do it differently if
there is a better way...

 - Kristian.