[debian-mysql] Bug#766996: Bug#766996: libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev-compat: misses a mysql_config symlink

[Christos Trochalakis]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:36:26 -0800 Daniel Schepler <dschepler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 6:48 AM, Rene Engelhard <rene at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > -> it should also ship a mysql_config -> mariadb_config link.
> >
> 
> I've forwarded the bug report to maria-developers and had no objections to
> this, so I've added this link to the packages in git.  As I don't think
> this justifies a new upload during the freeze, I'm not going to mark the
> bug as pending for now.
> -- 
> Daniel Schepler

Hello,
we are migrating our ruby application servers to jessie we bumped into this.

The ruby mysql2 gem tries to locate mysql_config on compilication and fails.

I think this is a relatively safe fix for jessie and could be included in the 
first point release.  There are a lot of things out there expecting to find 
a mysql_config and this could ease some of the pain.

What do you think?