[debian-mysql] Bug#917266: Bug#917266: Bug#917266: default-libmysqlclient-dev: Uninstallable - depends on no longer built libmariadbclient-dev-compat

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday, January 23, 2019 05:32:49 PM Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > Can't you just use dh_link to add a symlink?
> 
> I am re-evaluating this fix and considering to revert it. The problem
> with Postfix was that it did not find /usr/include/mysql/mysql.h and
> we added a symlink in libmariadb-dev to fix it.
> 
> However, this symlink already existed in libmariadb-dev-compat, and
> default-mysqlclient-dev depends on libmariadb-dev-compat, so Postfix
> should have found it. I wonder why that package was not correctly
> installed at Postfix's build time.

Maybe I fixed it in the wrong place.  According to p.d.o [1], it doesn't have 
that (and I don't recall finding it anywhere).

I'm not wedded to any particular solution, I just wanted to be able to get 
postfix to build.

Scott K


[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libmariadb-dev-compat/filelist