[debian-mysql] Bug#1020518: libmariadb3 is a client library that include marriadb-common that will mess with /etc/mysql/my.cnf

[nobody]

Package: libmariadb3
Version: 1:10.3.36-0+deb10u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

  The libmariadb3 package requires mariadb-common, but this last one will modify the /etc/mysql/my.cnf.
  The library is not only use on a host having mariadb as a server, this is used on clients or on server with other flavor of mysql , in mytop for exemple.
  Installing this on a server using mysql.com packages or perconna packages will alter the server configuration of /etc/mysql/my.cnf


   * What led up to the situation?
 
   install of mytop that requires  libdbd-mysql-perl => libmariadb3 => mariadb-common       

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

   As this machine is not a mariadb server but a mysql server installing this caused problems with the my.cnf file, i am locked by this requirement of libmariadb

   * What was the outcome of this action?

   each apt action return now an error as the package fail : update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf doesn't exist	
 
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

   installing a client library should not require anything on the server side and should not modify server configuration of mariadb or other mysql flavors (imho ;p)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.13
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'oldoldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.254-vs2.3.9.12aq (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libmariadb3 depends on:
ii  libc6           2.28-10+deb10u1
ii  libgnutls30     3.6.7-4+deb10u9
ih  mariadb-common  1:10.3.36-0+deb10u1
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u2

libmariadb3 recommends no packages.

libmariadb3 suggests no packages.

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