Bug#702280: Add alternative (build-)dependency: libmariadbclient-dev

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:24:30 +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:

> 2013/3/4 Rene Engelhard <rene at debian.org>:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:15:40PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> >> The attached patch would insert the dependency like:
> >> libmariadbclient-dev | libmysqlclient-dev
> > TTBOMK sbuld (at least the one used at the debian buildds)
> > only consider the first alternative - and this is correct to ensure
> > reliable builds.
> You are right, the resulting binary package will have only
> "libmariadbclient18 (>= 5.5.1-1)"
[..]
> What is the correct way to insert "libmariadbclient18 (>= 5.5.1-1) |
> libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.1-1)" in there?

That's only possbile with more or less ugly hacks from the
libdbd-mysql-perl side.

But as Rene has already pointed out, changing Build-Depends to
"libmariadbclient-dev | libmysqlclient-dev" makes the package
immediately unbuildable and therefore RC-buggy if
libmariadbclient-dev is not yet in the archive.

(Besides that, any such major changed will have to wait until after
the wheezy release.)

Cheers,
gregor

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