[debian-mysql] Bug#904542: libmariadb-dev: Header files don't match mariadb-server-10.1 10.1.26-0+deb9u1

[Joe Branton]

Package: libmariadb-dev
Version: 2.3.2-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I have been trying to build a mysql UDF library (https://github.com/glovebx/lib_mysqludf_xql)
against MariaDB in the stable release of Debian Stretch.

I currently have the following MariaDB related packages installed:

ii  libdbd-mysql-perl                    4.041-2                           amd64        Perl5 database interface to the MariaDB/MySQL database
ii  libmariadb-dev                       2.3.2-2                           amd64        MariaDB Connector/C, development files
ii  libmariadb-dev-compat:amd64          2.3.2-2                           amd64        MariaDB Connector/C, compatibility symlinks
ii  libmariadb2:amd64                    2.3.2-2                           amd64        MariaDB Connector/C
ii  libmariadbclient18:amd64             10.1.26-0+deb9u1                  amd64        MariaDB database client library
ii  mariadb-client-10.1                  10.1.26-0+deb9u1                  amd64        MariaDB database client binaries
ii  mariadb-client-core-10.1             10.1.26-0+deb9u1                  amd64        MariaDB database core client binaries
ii  mariadb-common                       10.1.26-0+deb9u1                  all          MariaDB common metapackage
ii  mariadb-server                       10.1.26-0+deb9u1                  all          MariaDB database server (metapackage depending on the latest version)
ii  mariadb-server-10.1                  10.1.26-0+deb9u1                  amd64        MariaDB database server binaries
ii  mariadb-server-core-10.1             10.1.26-0+deb9u1                  amd64        MariaDB database core server files

I hit various build problems which altered me to the fact that the header files
in /usr/include/mariadb do not match those in the source for mariadb-server-10.1 10.1.26-0+deb9u1.
As a work around I replaced /usr/include/mariadb with a symbolic link into the mariadb-server-10.1
source tree that I downloaded and was able to build the UDF library.

Regards,

Joe.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libmariadb-dev depends on:
ii  libc6        2.24-11+deb9u3
ii  libmariadb2  2.3.2-2

libmariadb-dev recommends no packages.

libmariadb-dev suggests no packages.

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