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

[Otto Kekäläinen]

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).