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

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Clint:
> 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

Otto:
> 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

The correct name is 'virtual-mysql-server' with virtual first, and
also 'virtual-mysql-client'. My text above had typo and the original
text from Clint was correct.


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

This name has been decided in the pkg-mysql-maint group I believe a
long time ago and currently in use in MySQL packages. I cannot point
to any message URL as I don't know exactly who or when made this
decision, but at least recent query on the team mailing list showed
that the decision is not going to be reverted now.