In response to 'libmariadbclient18', here's a list of mariadb packages:
dpkg -l | grep maria
ii libmariadbclient18 10.1.18+maria-1~sid amd64
MariaDB database client library
ii libmysqlclient18 10.1.18+maria-1~sid amd64
Virtual package to satisfy external depends
ii mariadb-client-10.1 10.1.18+maria-1~sid amd64
MariaDB database client binaries
ii mariadb-client-core-10.1 10.1.18+maria-1~sid amd64
MariaDB database core client binaries
ii mariadb-common 10.1.18+maria-1~sid all
MariaDB database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/conf.d/mariadb.cnf)
ii mariadb-server 10.1.18+maria-1~sid all
MariaDB database server (metapackage depending on the latest
version)
ii mariadb-server-10.1 10.1.18+maria-1~sid amd64
MariaDB database server binaries
ii mariadb-server-core-10.1 10.1.18+maria-1~sid amd64
MariaDB database core server files
ii mysql-common 10.1.18+maria-1~sid all
MariaDB database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)
Postfix/postfix-mysql 3.1.0-5+b1 doesn't have this issue that's being
reported so are you sure it's just a bystander?
On Wed, 26 Oct 2016 01:36:01 -0700 Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On
October 26, 2016 12:27:33 AM PDT, Nathan Anderson wrote: > >I experience
the same issue with MariaDB 10.1 from MariaDB's own > >repository (not
sure why 10.1 isn't in Debian's repo to begin with...). > > > > > >I
spun up a VM and tested postfix-mysql 3.1.3-1 with mysql-5.7 from >
>Debian's unstable repo and I couldn't get mysql sasl dbs to work there > >either... > > The postfix-mysql package for 3.1.3-1 is compiled against Debian's mariadb (the default MySQL implementation for the next release). See https://packages.debian.org/unstable/postfix-mysql - did you try it with libmariadbclient18? Simply installing postfix-mysql will cause that to be installed. > > Based on the information provided, the packages provided by MariaDB are not binary compatible with the Debian packages. For postfix-mysql to work with them, it would have to be rebuilt locally. This is obviously not something that the postfix maintainers can provide support for. > > It might be worth a discussion with the Debian mariadb maintainers and the external package providers to determine if they can be made more compatible. Either way, postfix is just a bystander. > > Scott K > >