[debian-mysql] Bug#888095: Bug#888095:

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Hi Otto,

On Sun, 4 Mar 2018 00:06:53 +0200 =?UTF-8?B?T3R0byBLZWvDpGzDpGluZW4=?=
<otto at debian.org> wrote:
> It was not intended for the mariadb-10.x packages to ship the new LGPL
> based client library. For that we have the separate
> mariadb-connector-c package.
> 
> The package mariadb-10.2 is to be removed from Debian unstable and the
> next versions of mariadb-10.3 uploaded to Debian will not include this
> libmariadb3 library.

That's fine. There's still the problem that testing / unstable / experimental
users might have installed libmariadb3 when it was available to them, at version
10.2 or 10.3. Now if we go back to libmariadb3 3.0.3 from
src:mariadb-connector-c, apt will refuse to upgrade the package for those users.
That's why we need an epoch here, so that the new libmariadb3 from
src:mariadb-connector-c has a higher version than any previous libmariadb3. That
would also solve the problem with mariadb-connector-c failing to install into
the archive, as you can see in [1]

What I would suggest is that you upload mariadb-connector-c with an epoch (i.e.
1:3.0.3-2) and when it is built and installed, upload mariadb-10.3 without
libmariadb3.

Cheers,
Emilio

[1]
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=mariadb-connector-c&suite=unstable