[debian-mysql] [RFC] Adding a new *-dev package to mariadb-10.0

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

2015-10-27 12:41 GMT+02:00 Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert at t-online.de>:
> maxscale needs the header for client functions from current mariadb versions
> like 10.0 or 10.1 and the respective package libmariadbclient-dev is not
> available within the mariadb-10.0 packaging. The other issue is that MariaDB
> unfortunately isn't providing any *debian.tar.xz archives so packaging of
> maxscale is creating mostly every thing from source.

As I replied in the previous post, libmariadbclient-dev is kind of
forbidden in Debian at the moment, depending on how you interpret the
Debian policy.

You probably want to take the upstream mariadb.org package that does
include libmariadbclient etc and do your packages with that.