[debian-mysql] Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

[Luca Capello]

Hi Otto,

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:58:54 +0100, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> 2014-01-19 Luca Capello <luca at pca.it>:
>> While doing the necessary changes for #732879 for Bacula, I found that
>> the above names mismatch: which are the correct one?  The same confusion
>> is on the Debian wiki:
>>
>>   <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/virtual-mysql-server?action=recall&rev=2>
>
> While updating the MariaDB package to .35 I re-read this message. Note
> that there are actually two virtual packages, depending if your
> package needs the client or the server. So there is no name mismatch,
> you just choose the one depending on if you need client or server.

I know the difference between a client and a server, so please let me
underline with "^^^" where the mismatch is in the above link:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
All packages that at the moment depend directly on mysql-client should
instead have something like:

 Depends: the-one-they-tested-with | virtual-mysql-client
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(or Suggests or Recommends)

At the moment in unstable the packages mysql-server-5.5 and
mariadb-server-5.5 have

 Provides: mysql-virtual-server
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and mysql-client-5-5 and mariadb-client-5.5 have

 Provides: mysql-virtual-client
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

And there is still no pointer to the reasoning behind such names.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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