[debian-mysql] Bug#793787: Bug#793787: mariadb-client-10.0: indirect dependency on libmysqlclient18

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2015-07-27 17:45 GMT+03:00 Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz at web.de>:
> Package: mariadb-client-10.0
> Version: 10.0.20-3
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the package depends now on libdbd-mysql-perl which in turn depends on
> libmysqlclient18. Is this intended?

The MariaDB client package depends on libdbi-perl which in turn does
not work as intended unless also libdbd-mysql-perl is installed. That
in turn depends on libmysqlclient18 because there is not
libmaraidbclient18 available in Debian due to the current view
regarding policy, that it would not be allowed to provide the same
shared library by two different packages. Therefore we default to
using libmysqlclient18 everywhere for now.

Developers can choose to use libmariadb2 if using a new API is an option.