On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Otto Kekäläinen <o...@seravo.fi> wrote:
> Package: libmariadb-client-lgpl-dev > > I decided to forward the message from Arnaud Fontaine below as a bug > report so we can work on it using the normal Debian bug tracking > processes. > > My quick opinion is that we cannot use upstream libmysqlclient as it > conflicts with Oracle libmysqlclient in Debian in ways senior DDs > don't accept and renaming to libmariadbclient wasn't adopted by > anybody downstream, so using only mariadb-client-lgpl is still our > best shot - maybe upstream mariadb-client-lgpl developer could solve > this by merging the missing features from mysql_configure to > mariadb_configure? > I don't see how the client-only library build would get information about where the mariadb plugin headers are located. Maybe the mariadb packages could provide something like mariadb_plugin_config instead? And/or we could add pkg-config and cmake config files, and deprecate the *_config binaries. -- Daniel Schepler
