[debian-mysql] Introducing default-mysql-* metapackages

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

2016-09-05 9:57 GMT+03:00 Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>:
> could you elaborate a bit more why you are forcing all Build-RDeps to
> change B-D to default-libmysqlclient-dev instead of just changing the
> semantics of libmysqlclient-dev?
>
> I understand the default-mysql-client and default-mysql-server, but I
> don't understand the change from libmysqlclient-dev to
> default-libmysqlclient-dev.
>
> We have a couple of similar cases that doesn't require that much work
> (f.e. libjpeg-dev) and renaming the original libmysqlclient-dev to
> libmysqlclient-oracle-dev and adding Provides: libmysqlclient-dev to
> libmariadbclient-dev would achieve the same thing and require a
> substantially less work on the other people side.

Thanks for the suggestion. This method was not discussed earlier when
the pkg-mysql-maint team designed the new mysql-defaults metapackages.
I would be fine by doing what you suggest. What does Robie and others
who are more vested in maintaining Oracle packages think about this?

- Otto