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

[Colin Tuckley]

On 10/07/17 21:01, Paul Gevers wrote:

> 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.

I'm the cqrlog package maintainer. Unfortunately for reasons beyond my
control cqrlog got removed from testing just before the release. The
Debian Hams team and I are trying to get it back into testing, so far we
have fixed the blockers and are doing some testing - which is when we
found the problems. There are systems in use that have older versions of
cqrlog installed which were working happily until people tried to
upgrade to stretch when it was released.

> 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?

cqrlog needs a database system. It can use Mysql or MariaDB via the
support in FPC.

There is no Mysql in Debian stable (only MariaDB) and no MariaDB in FPC
on Debian stable. So FPC database support is mis-matched to the
distribution it is in!

> Accidentally,

I hope you mean *Incidently*

> 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).

I'll take a look once it (and Lazarus) start hitting the mirrors etc.

regards, Colin

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