[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#732910: Bug#732910: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 07:57:16PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> MariaDB is an drop in replacement for MySQL. As MariaDB has just
> landed in Debian unstable it would be a good time to include it in the
> dependencies as an alternative to MySQL.
> 
> Please change in the debian/control any occurences of mysql-server and
> mysql-client to "mariadb-server | mysql-server" and "mariadb-client |
> mysql-client".
> 
> This way systems that have MariaDB installed instead of MySQL can use
> this package without problems. While MariaDB is at the moment only in
> Debian unstable, some users might have installed it from mariadb.org
> or other sources to jessie or wheezy, so it does not hurt if this
> package has these dependencies updated for older Debian releases too.
> 
> This is a very quick and safe change to do, and there is no urgency to
> upload the package just for this small thing. Just update the
> dependency (or suggest or recommends) lines in the debian/control file
> and let the change propagate when there is something else to push too.

I will wait until the revised suggestion being discussed on
debian-devel is made official (please could you consider sending a note
to the bugs in question in that case?)

Cheers,
Dominic.