[debian-mysql] Security updates for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7 in unstable

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-01-20 21:05, Lars Tangvald wrote:
> ----- anbe at debian.org wrote:
>> * add an override for
>>   E: libmysqld-dev: depends-on-obsolete-package depends:
>> libmysqlclient-dev (>= 5.7.17-1) => default-libmysqlclient-dev

> About libmysqld-dev: I can pretty much guarantee this wouldn't work
> with default-libmysqlclient-dev, since that will point to mariadb's
> client library. Why is it marked as obsolete when it's part of
> src:mysql-5.7?

That lintian test was added for the mysql->mariadb transition.
It flags all dependencies on the (old) libmysqlclient-dev package name
as bad (s.t. this information is easily available to the maintainer),
but it does not know about the special case being packages built from
src:mysql-X.Y itself, so adding an override there is fine.
(AFAICS there are currently no packages in the archive that need to
depend on something from mysql-x.y because they do not work with
mariadb. From earlier discussions I expected there would be some with
this requirement, these should have been candidates adding a lintian
override for that error, too.)


Andreas