[debian-mysql] Bug#1115678: Consider making some MariaDB client Perl depends just 'Suggests' instead of 'Recommends' and 'Depends'

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Package: src:mariadb
Version: 1:11.8.3-1
Owner: otto at debian.org

The MariaDB client package has multiple Perl dependencies, which
should be reviewed and potentially lowered to 'Suggests'

Current control file:

Package: mariadb-client
Architecture: any
Depends:
 debianutils (>=1.6),
 libconfig-inifiles-perl,
 mariadb-client-core (>= ${source:Version}),
 ${misc:Depends},
 ${perl:Depends},
 ${shlibs:Depends},
...
Recommends:
 libdbd-mariadb-perl | libdbd-mysql-perl,
 libdbi-perl,
 libterm-readkey-perl,
Description: MariaDB database client binaries
 MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database
 server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query
 language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and
 ease of use.
 .
 This package includes the client binaries and the additional tools
 innotop and mariadb-report (mysqlreport).


Most MariaDB client programs are in C/C++, but these are Perl (quick
list based on iterating over the files with `file`):

/usr/bin/innotop: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-access: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-convert-table-format: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-dumpslow: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-find-rows: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-fix-extensions: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-hotcopy: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-report: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mariadb-setpermission: Perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mytop: Perl script text executable