Re: [debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-28 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Monday, 28 November 2016 21:37:05 CET Robie Basak wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:12:14PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > > thank you both for the information, this sounds quite good. I will switch > > to libmariadbclient for stretch. For stretch+1, we'll see how things > > develop upstream.

Re: [debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-28 Thread Robie Basak
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:12:14PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > thank you both for the information, this sounds quite good. I will switch to > libmariadbclient for stretch. For stretch+1, we'll see how things develop > upstream. Can you not use default-libmysqlclient-dev and maintain build-tim

Re: [debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-28 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Robie, hi Kristian, On Sunday, 27 November 2016 14:11:11 CET Kristian Nielsen wrote: > Future compatibility between MariaDB client library and MySQL server, or > wise versa, is rather more likely than other kinds of compatibility. This is > because there is generally a strong desire to have the

Re: [debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-27 Thread Kristian Nielsen
Kristian Nielsen writes: > that an old client can connect to a new server, _and_ that a new server can > connect to an old client. This helps a lot to ensure that eg. new mariadb Ehm. I mean "... and that a new client can connect to an old server", of course. - Kristian.

Re: [debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-27 Thread Kristian Nielsen
Robie Basak writes: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:40:34PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: >> Are the mariadb client libraries compatible with current mysql servers? > > I believe this is true at the moment, though as one might reasonably > expect I believe this is "unsupported" by MySQL upstream. For

Re: [debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-27 Thread Robie Basak
Hi Stefan, On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:40:34PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > Are the mariadb client libraries compatible with current mysql servers? I believe this is true at the moment, though as one might reasonably expect I believe this is "unsupported" by MySQL upstream. For us, that probably

Re: [MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-26 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, I have some questions regarding compatibility of the client libraries: For apache2 (via apr-util), common configurations have the sql server is running on a different machine, and possibly OS, than the web server. It is therefore fairly important that apr-util still works with mysql as sql

[MBF] mysql meta-packages

2016-11-23 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi, In order to allow moving to MariaDB, the pkg-mysql maintainers introduced some meta-packages, as was announced in [1]. This way, not only this transition is possible, but we can move to another provider in the future if necessary. (Please, don't turn this into a discussion of how those meta-pa