Bug#825084: Package links against libmysqlclient_r

[Robie Basak]

Package: repro
Version: 1.10.1-2
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu yakkety ubuntu-patch

Dear Maintainer,

Please stop linking against libmysqlclient_r and link directly against
libmysqlclient instead.

Your package currently links against libmysqlclient_r. libmysqlclient_r
was the thread-safe version of libmysqlclient in previous MySQL
releases. However, libmysqlclient has been itself been made thread-safe
since before the current libmysqlclient18. Thus libmysqlclient_r is
currently deprecated and provided as a compatibility symlink only, and
will disappear in MySQL 5.7. This change can be made now, in advance of
a possible future transition to libmysqlclient20, which does not provide
the _r variant.

In Ubuntu, we have done this with the attached quilt patch, which I
believe is also applicable to Debian.

Thanks,

Robie Basak
Debian MySQL maintainers team
Ubuntu developer
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Author: Robie Basak <robie.basak at canonical.com>
Description: use libmysqlclient instead of libmysqlclient_r
 The former supersedes the latter which no longer exists in MySQL 5.7.
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2016-04-14

--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
 AC_ARG_WITH(mysql,
 [  --with-mysql            Link against MySQL client libraries],
  [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(USE_MYSQL, , USE_MYSQL)
- AC_SUBST(LIBMYSQL_LIBADD, "-lmysqlclient_r")
+ AC_SUBST(LIBMYSQL_LIBADD, "-lmysqlclient")
  AM_CONDITIONAL(USE_MYSQL, true)], 
  [ AC_SUBST(LIBMYSQL_LIBADD, "")])