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

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:23:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > (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.

Right, that might be an option, thanks for the idea.

But I guess this all depends on the general future of MySQL and
MariaDB in Debian which at least I have no idea about.


Cheers,
gregor

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