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

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Jul  5, 2016 at 11:41:15 +0200, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:

> We discussed this in the release team and concluded that having two
> libmysqlclient.so.18 files in two packages is likely to run into problems
> later if/when they diverge, so there is no point delaying that pain.
> Especially as they are not identical even now.
> 
> I wonder if pkgconfig can be any help here? That involves a one-time change
> to client packages if they don't already use pkgconfig but doesn't have to
> be repeated if the default switches.
> 
Client packages surely don't care about the specific SONAME?  So long as
the .so symlink in the -dev package doesn't change, clients shouldn't
notice.

Cheers,
Julien