2013/12/30 Otto Kekäläinen <o...@seravo.fi>: > 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?
Just for the record, I've written down now this policy at https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/virtual-mysql-server and it is now in effect as there was no other contersuggestions, and both the MySQL packages and MariaDB packages in Debian already abide to this policy. -- Otto Kekäläinen +358 44 566 2204 http://seravo.fi/ -- 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_TLCsbrW=rta7o0utnq8ouysbg6xyknox8z1q+sxaa3-...@mail.gmail.com
