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

[Kristian Nielsen]

Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> writes:

> Ok, we can postpone the upload but could we now try to figure out the
> technical solution of what will be eventually uploaded?

Maybe we could handle this by initially changing the Depends: on
libdbd-mysql-perl to a Recommends: ? That would allow to upload the initial
MariaDB packages to the archive, and once that is done we could change the
other packages to require libmariadbclient18 instead of libmysqlclient18.

I checked, and as far as I can see, libdbd-mysql-perl is only required for a
few non-essential binaries:

    innotop
    mysqlreport
    mysql_convert_table_format
    mysql_setpermission
    mysqlhotcopy

So a Recommends: might be an acceptable short-term work-around. This might be
a way to solve the chicken-and-egg problem ?