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

[Russ Allbery]

gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org> writes:

> 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.)

In the long term (jessie), the right solution may be to build two versions
of libdbd-mysql-perl, one built against conventional MySQL and one built
against MariaDB, from the same source package.

This is what I do for libpam-krb5 / libpam-heimdal.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>