[debian-mysql] dbconfig autopkgtests fail: Plugin caching_sha2_password could not be loaded: /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/mariadb19/plugin/caching_sha2_password.so

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Otto,

On 30-08-2020 19:57, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Paul: Not directly related to this, but please note that there also
> exists libdbd-mariadb-perl and it can be used like this:
> 
> $ apt install libdbd-mariadb-perl
> $ cat test.pl
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use DBI;
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:MariaDB:database=testdatabase;host=localhost",
> "testuser", "testpassword");
> 
> libdbd-mariadb-perl is maintained in Debian by Xavier Guimard. I am
> not sure how exactly it differs from MySQL, but if you have Perl
> stuff, you might want to consider switching to it.

Thanks for the heads up. I only use it in the autopkgtest for
dbconfig-common, so I will probably *add* a tests with the
libdbd-mariadb-perl dependency. Looking at the code, I only need to
change "mysql" to "MariaDB".

That said, it may very well be that other packages that use
dbconfig-common are doing exactly what the examples in the
dbconfig-common package are teaching.

Paul

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