[debian-mysql] Bug#861913: mariadb-client-10.1: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/mytop', which is also in package mytop 1.9.1-4

[Ondřej Surý]

I am not sure about that. We still live in the strange dichotomy where
we consider that MySQL server might get installed from different
repository (or unstable) and the original "mytop" is meant to be used
with MySQL server (from Oracle).

Maybe there should be some clear naming split in the future (like what
happened with libmariadb C library), but that would be a buster
material, because that would need:

1) walk through all the commands and replace all "my" and "mysql" with
"maria"
2) make a compatibility package on top of that that would decide what
command to use based on the default "MySQL" provider in the system

Definitely lot of careful work.

Cheers,
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On Mon, May 29, 2017, at 10:04, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> I was thinking, wouldn't it make sense to just update the original
> mytop package?
> 
> 2017-05-08 12:10 GMT+02:00 Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>:
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-mysql/mariadb-10.1.git/commit/?id=2a17c70476de768f1e166b65f4a1b3865ac9757f
> >
> > --
> > Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
> > Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server
> > Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware,
> > fast DNS(SEC) resolver
> > Vše pro chleba (https://vseprochleba.cz) – Mouky ze mlýna a potřeby pro
> > pečení chleba všeho druhu
> >
> > On Mon, May 8, 2017, at 12:08, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> >> 2017-05-08 11:42 GMT+02:00 Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>:
> >> > Definitely, I am just building the fixed version. I did a cleanup of
> >> > upstream files not being installed in the last bigger mariadb update,
> >> > and I was just not aware mytop was already packaged. Sorry for the
> >> > troubles.
> >>
> >> Shouldn't it also declare a Replaces?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Olaf