Bug#663182: Possible solution

[Dmitry Smirnov]

I would like mysql-utilities not to be intrusive, for that reason I think it 
make sense to keep its executables 'mysql*' in private directory 
/usr/lib/mysql-utilities

To me the fact that 'mysqldiff' provided by libmysql-diff-perl was in /usr/bin 
first is enough: it won't be fair to its users to replace it with entirely 
different utility merely because new package aggressively taking space in 
/usr/bin with dozen new executables.

Ideally they could be consolidated with wrapper like '/usr/bin/mysqlu' which 
could use first parameter to invoke corresponding executable from 
/usr/lib/mysql-utilities. How about it?

Although my next argument is very personal and biased, I always prefer Perl 
over Python. I packaged mysql-utilities only because they are shipped as part 
of mysql-workbench and I'm not too sure if they deserve their place in 
/usr/bin.

Regards,
Dmitry.

P.S. Having said that I recognise David's experience as much greater than mine 
so I will happily follow whatever he recommend.