Hello! 2016-09-05 9:57 GMT+03:00 Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>: > could you elaborate a bit more why you are forcing all Build-RDeps to > change B-D to default-libmysqlclient-dev instead of just changing the > semantics of libmysqlclient-dev? > > I understand the default-mysql-client and default-mysql-server, but I > don't understand the change from libmysqlclient-dev to > default-libmysqlclient-dev. > > We have a couple of similar cases that doesn't require that much work > (f.e. libjpeg-dev) and renaming the original libmysqlclient-dev to > libmysqlclient-oracle-dev and adding Provides: libmysqlclient-dev to > libmariadbclient-dev would achieve the same thing and require a > substantially less work on the other people side.
Thanks for the suggestion. This method was not discussed earlier when the pkg-mysql-maint team designed the new mysql-defaults metapackages. I would be fine by doing what you suggest. What does Robie and others who are more vested in maintaining Oracle packages think about this? - Otto
