[debian-mysql] About packages that depend on mysql-* / mariadb / virtual-mysql-*

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On 2016-07-03 13:46, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Report of status and request for comments from the release team
> regarding the next steps:
> 
> 2016-04-11 21:38 GMT+01:00 Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi>:
>> 1. MariaDB as default
> 
> On the pkg-mysql-maint team we have discussed providing a new scheme
> to complement the existing virtual-mysql-* scheme. We plan to
> introduce new purely virtual packages, that are provided only by

That's not what we discussed yesterday. As I said then, openjdk does not 
provide a virtual package and default-mta is not a problem because it's 
not used as a build-dep.

openjdk instead uses a concrete meta-package, which could work for your 
case too.

We are meeting this evening and I expect will discuss this if there is 
time.


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