Bug#663182: Possible solution

[David Paleino]

Hello,

if I might say my own opinion, given that I sponsored mysql-utilities, here is
a proposed solution.

- libmysql-diff-perl should build a new binary package (let's call it
  libmysql-diff-perl-bin, for the sake of example). This will only contain
  the script in /usr/bin/, and will depend on libmysql-diff-perl -- which will
  only contain the Perl module. Also, the lib*-bin package will Conflict with
  mysql-utilities.

- mysql-utilities should Conflict with the newly-generated package.

Unfortunately, it's not possible (IMHO) to use alternatives, since the two
mysql-diff programs have slightly different options (and features, too).

Dmitry (maintainer of mysql-utilities) proposed to move its binaries
to /usr/lib/mysql-utilities: I'm strongly against this, since those binaries
will have no use outside mysql-workbench (which they should have, instead).

Failing to split libmysql-diff-perl means that either mysql-utilities moves its
binaries in strange locations out of $PATH, or that it should conflict with the
whole Perl module (which really makes no sense).

Another option would be renaming one of the two binaries: mysql-utilities
provides many binaries in the form mysql<something>, renaming just one of them
seems weird. Thus I propose to rename the one contained within the Perl module,
if that's an acceptable solution to both parts involved.

I'm confident that pkg-perl people will express their own opinion, and that
we'll find a solution to this.

Kindly,
David

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