[debian-mysql] Bug#1106889: mariadb-plugin-connect hard-codes a dependency on libxml2

[Matthias Klose]

On 12.06.25 07:00, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Why did you have to fork this package in Ubuntu?
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mariadb
> 
> You could have just submitted a MR for the package in Debian. I
> understand if the Debian package and Ubuntu have some intentional
> differences one might need to fork the Ubuntu version, but in this
> case you did not try to contribute to the Debian package. In fact your
> bug report in Debian states that this libxml2 issue is *not* supposed
> to be fixed yet. There was no warning that you will fork the package
> unless the maintainer fixes the issue in X days. This kind of
> behaviour does not make any sense to me. If you had contributed to the
> package in Debian this would already be fixed in both Debian and
> Ubuntu.
> 
> Please sync the package from Debian and do the required extra work you
> created now. Thanks!

Seriously? I reported both issues with bug fixes to the bug tracker:

https://bugs.debian.org/1106617
https://bugs.debian.org/1106889

so pretty please calm down and address these issues, if they are not yet 
addressed in the current Debian package.

Yes, and it's rather insulting to call these kind of fixes a "fork".

Matthias