Hello! > The only thing that mariadb upstream could do here is officially > deprecate mariadb_config. I'm not sure whether you want that though. > > > pkg-config just works and you already have the script? > > Yeah, I'm asking for integrating it into the Debian package. The Debian > package could replace the shipped mariadb_config ELF executable with the > generated shell script. Doing so would make a number of downstream > packages that don't use pkg-config cross buildable.
I am happy to do these changes for you in the Debian package, but I wasn't quite able to follow what script do you mean is the replacement? Currently the Debian package ships mariadb_config (libmariadb-dev.install:usr/bin/mariadb_config, and mysql_config is a symlink to it). I looking at build products in mariadb-10.3 I don't see that alternative scripts. What is the name/path?
