Hi, On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:36:15AM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Yes, this scheme is very flexible and in cases like > > mysql-connector-c++ the package can depend explicitly on the MySQL > > package and not the default package.
OK. > > Or we keep a working version with MariaDB, but then again there's other > > packages like mysql-workbench also wanting 1.1.7 (and thus MySQL 5.7)... > > I think mysql-workbench works just fine with MariaDB, it only > complains about the version string not being what it assumes as it > thinks 10.0 < 5.x and it requires 5.x or later. Somebody should patch > mysql-workbench to do proper version string comparison. Sure, but TTBOMK it wants Connector/C >= 1.1.7 which then in turn needs libmysqlclient-dev 5.7. That was the point. I also think it should be able to _connect_ to a MariaDB then... Regards, Rene
