On 12/30/2013 11:53 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > 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?
Hi, This sounds much much better than listing each and every *-client package indeed. Thomas -- 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/52c2680b.6030...@debian.org
