[debian-mysql] Bug#851687: Bug#851687: mariadb-server-10.1 uninstallable on kFreeBSD and hurd

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Otto Kekäläinen <otto at debian.org> writes:

> Somebody complained to me about using age old iproute, so I updated it
> in https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mariadb-10.1.git/commit/?id=4d96f3c7be53afe605b3f5d1b03ba6a28c805e82
>
> What is your suggestion on how to solve this? Downgrade back? What
> shall be done with lsof then?

Downgrading the dependency to iproute will not help, as that's not
available either. The last mariadb-server-10.0 didn't depend on either
iproute nor lsof. I've now tried finding out why the dependencies were
added. For lsof, I only find one script that uses it (or errors out if
it can't find it), so maybe there you could use a depend on "lsof
[linux-any]". As the binary "ip" from iproute2 has a too generic name
for a search, I can't easily tell why or where it is used, but maybe
that can be solved likewise.