Bug#732909: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 22 décembre 2013 18:56 CET, Otto Kekäläinen <o...@seravo.fi> :

> MariaDB is an drop in replacement for MySQL. As MariaDB has just
> landed in Debian unstable it would be a good time to include it in the
> dependencies as an alternative to MySQL.
>
> Please change in the debian/control any occurences of mysql-server and
> mysql-client to "mariadb-server | mysql-server" and "mariadb-client |
> mysql-client".
>
> This way systems that have MariaDB installed instead of MySQL can use
> this package without problems. While MariaDB is at the moment only in
> Debian unstable, some users might have installed it from mariadb.org
> or other sources to jessie or wheezy, so it does not hurt if this
> package has these dependencies updated for older Debian releases too.
>
> This is a very quick and safe change to do, and there is no urgency to
> upload the package just for this small thing. Just update the
> dependency (or suggest or recommends) lines in the debian/control file
> and let the change propagate when there is something else to push too.
>
> MariaDB packages in Debian:
> http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mariadb&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all

Just to be sure, no change is required in dbconfig-common handling?
-- 
Don't patch bad code - rewrite it.
            - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plauger)

signature.asc
Description: PGP signature