On 22 December 2013 at 19:51, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
| Package: beancounter
| Severity: wishlist
|
| 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".
You may have seen that
a) MySQL is just one of several backends here:
postgresql-client | mysql-client | sqlite3 | sqlite
b) Releases of beancounter have not been exactly frequent of late (and I am
both upstream and maintainer)
That said, I'll be happy to take care of this. Eventually.
Dirk
|
| 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§ion=all
|
|
| Thanks!
|
| - Otto
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