[Pkg-pascal-devel] No MariaDB support in FPC in Debian stable

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Colin,

On 07/10/17 21:48, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> Unfortunately it only fails on a *clean* install of stretch or a
> *distupgrade* to stretch. The first because mysql doesn't get installed
> and the second because it gets removed.

I don't understand what you are saying here. As far as I can tell,
cqrlog isn't part of the stretch release¹, so you can't install it in
stretch, and obviously you can't upgrade to it either.

>> As you are saying that it works in Ubuntu, and there is no delta between
>> Ubuntu and Debian in the fpc area, I have no idea.
> 
> No, I'm told by upstream that it works on that release of Ubuntu. It may
> work on Debian testing, but I don't currently have a way of testing
> that. I'm happy to test stuff on stable if that helps.

As it can't be installed, I don't think there is much to test. And

> Note that cqrlog is quite clever at finding database client libraries
> that it can use and on a Debian stretch system installing the Ubuntu
> *mysql* client lib:
> 
> libmysqlclient18_5.6.25-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
> 
> gets things working again.

I did read some of bug 863644², obviously that is not possible in plain
Debian. Can you explain to us why you are convinced that fpc is doing
stuff wrong? What features does cqrlog use from fpc that are broken?
Accidentally, I uploaded fpc 3.0.2 to unstable just before your e-mail,
does that help in any way (obviously, you need to compile cqrlog again,
probably you have to wait until lazarus hits the archive as well and
don't forget to apply the needed stuff from bug 865777).

Paul

¹ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cqrlog
paul at testavoira ~ $ sudo apt install cqrlog
[sudo] password for paul:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package cqrlog is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'cqrlog' has no installation candidate
² https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863644

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