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

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2013/3/5 Kristian Nielsen <knielsen at knielsen-hq.org>:
> 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 ?

I am now rebuilding the package with Recommends: libdbd-mysql-perl
(instead of Depends). Once the MariaDB packages are uploaded, we can
revisit this chicken-and-egg issue.