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

[cpu4you :: Karl Stephan Gauklitz-Novak]

Dear Dominic

Thank you for your email regarding "Missing dependency for 
"rt4-db-mysql" in Debian jessie?" -> mariadb.

We are sorry to hear that there seems to be no solution for this 
issue/feature request.

Thanks a lot for the bugreport-info and the tipps how we could apply a 
work around. To be honest equivs is IMHO a crude hack and could break 
near future (os-)upgrades. Unfortunatelly jessie-backports isn't a 
solution either - there is no "virtual-mysql-client"-packet. :(

Seems like we need to force the PHP7-upgrades for our internal 
php-projects to be able to upgrade to stretch.

Thanks again for your precious time,

Yours faithfully,

Karl Gauklitz-Novak, cpu4you.


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Am 11.08.2017 um 19:14 schrieb 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.
>