[request-tracker-maintainers] Missing dependency for "rt4-db-mysql" in Debian jessie?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:26:56AM +0200, cpu4you :: Karl Stephan Gauklitz-Novak wrote:
> We are writing to enquire about the Debian package "rt4-db-mysql" in Debian
> jessie. We are curious why there is no dep for "mariadb-client-10.0" as
> alternative to "mysql-client (>= 4.1)"?
> 
> We (and I guess many others) would really appreciate this since switching
> from mysql to mariadb is more or less a "recommended" step...
> 
> If we can be of any further assistance, please let us know.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing from you,

This was done for stretch (the current stable release); you can see
the bug report about this here:

<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=732910>

I'm sorry that this didn't happen in time for jessie, but as this is
no longer the current stable release I don't see this changing. If you
are implementing a new RT system I would encourage you to first upgrade
to stretch. If you need to carry on jessie, you could make an empty
mysql-client package using equivs, but I cannot guarantee that this will
work as it hasn't been tested.

Best wishes,
Dominic.