James,
As far as I can see mariadb is not in Debian, so where are you pickng
it up from? The Debian MysQL team are thinking about providing the
mariadb and percona cores as drop-in replacements for
mysql-server-core-5.5, but surely any other mariadb components than that
would be pointless duplication.
On 19/06/12 21:51, ja...@nurealm.net wrote:
> Package: libdbd-mysql-perl
> Version: 4.021-1+b1
>
> Severity: important
>
> Release: Unstable
>
> Installing any of mariadb-client or mariadb-server involves a dependency,
>
> libmariadbclient18 : Depends: libmysqlclient18 (= 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze)
> but 5.5.24+dfsg-3 is to be installed.
>
> It seems that mariadb-client-5.5 depends upon libdbd-mysql-perl, but then
> libdbd-mysql-perl depends specifically upon
>
> libmysqlclient18 (>= 5.5.24+dfsg-1)
>
> I am under the impression that libmysqlclient18 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze is a
> drop-in replacement for libmysqlclient18 5.5.24+dfsg-1. Is that correct? For
> instance,
>
> aptitude -v --show-summary=first-package-and-type why libmysqlclient18
>
> shows that many packages depend upon libmysqlclient18, and seem perfectly
> happy with version 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze.
>
> And so the specific dependency upon version 5.5.24+dfsg-1 seems to be
> unnecessary, "heavy-handed", and to only cause problems for mariadb. Is there
> some specific problem with libdbd-mysql-perl using the 5.5.24-mariadb1~squeeze
> version of libmysqlclient18?
>
> N'est-ce pas? Can libdbd-mysql-perl play nicely with mariadb?
>
>
> James
>
>
>
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