Bug#678196: libdbd-mysql-perl explicit version dependency blocks installation of mariadb

[Nicholas Bamber]

James,
	As far as I can see mariadb is not in Debian, so where are you pickng
it up from? The Debian MysQL team are thinking about providing the
mariadb and percona cores as drop-in replacements for
mysql-server-core-5.5, but surely any other mariadb components than that
would be pointless duplication.

On 19/06/12 21:51, james at nurealm.net wrote:
> Package: libdbd-mysql-perl
> Version: 4.021-1+b1
> 
> Severity: important
> 
> Release: Unstable
> 
> Installing any of mariadb-client or mariadb-server involves a dependency,
> 
>  libmariadbclient18 : Depends: libmysqlclient18 (= 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze) but 5.5.24+dfsg-3 is to be installed.
> 
> It seems that mariadb-client-5.5 depends upon libdbd-mysql-perl, but then
> libdbd-mysql-perl depends specifically upon
> 
>  libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.24+dfsg-1)
> 
> I am under the impression that libmysqlclient18 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze is a
> drop-in replacement for libmysqlclient18 5.5.24+dfsg-1.  Is that correct?  For
> instance,
> 
>  aptitude -v --show-summary=first-package-and-type why libmysqlclient18
> 
> shows that many packages depend upon libmysqlclient18, and seem perfectly
> happy with version 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze.
> 
> And so the specific dependency upon version 5.5.24+dfsg-1 seems to be
> unnecessary, "heavy-handed", and to only cause problems for mariadb.  Is there
> some specific problem with libdbd-mysql-perl using the 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze
> version of libmysqlclient18?
> 
> N'est-ce pas?  Can libdbd-mysql-perl play nicely with mariadb?
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
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