Hello, 2013/12/25 Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org>: > Don't you think it would be more reasonable if the mariadb-client > contained a Provides: mysql-client, rather than changing each and every > software dependency in Debian? > > Adding debian-devel@, as I think it should be discussed more broadly.
We discussed this on the pkg-maint-mysql list and the recommended policy is now: All packages that at the moment depend directly on mysql-client should instead have something like: Depends: the-one-they-tested-with | virtual-mysql-client (or Suggests or Recommends) At the moment in unstable the packages mysql-server-5.5 and mariadb-server-5.5 have Provides: mysql-virtual-server and mysql-client-5-5 and mariadb-client-5.5 have Provides: mysql-virtual-client Later when other versions are uploaded to Debian (e.g. MySQL 5.6, MariaDB 10, Percona etc) they will include the same provides as long as they are compatible enough with MySQL 5.5 to be drop-in-replacements. Does this sound OK? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAHj_TLC7TFCpsiQXyakEb+=grgap8thethqsqqszxl4rygb...@mail.gmail.com
