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

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2016-07-06 09:54, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> 2016-07-05 19:52 GMT+03:00 Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com>:
>> PROPOSAL B
> 
> The whole pkg-mysql-maint team is behind the proposal Robie now wrote
> about. We have been discussing actively and engineering it during the
> last two days. It was also one of the topics discussed at the
> MariaDB/MySQL Bof at DebConf yesterday and we agreed about it. Only
> minor implementation details are left to decide on, like what command
> to use to make the links multiarch.

Nice! Can you summarize what what the new real/virtual packages will be
called and what packages are supposed to put into their
Depends/Build-Depends? (General packages that can work with any vendor
as well as packages specific to a single vendor.)

I see that the new unified repository is on alioth for mysql-5.7 and
mysql-defaults. I've now updated my repo at
git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/users/anbe/tmp/mysql.git
with a proposed integration of mysql-5.6, too.
There are also branches for dropping the mysql-common package from both
mysql-5.6 and mysql-5.7 once mysql-defaults is uploaded.

> If you want to have a say, please do so now before we finalize the
> solution we currently believe is the best one.
> 
> I expect to upload this new scheme to experimental in a few days for a
> larger audience to test and verify.


Andreas