On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:39:27 +0000, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > > Some thoughts: > > - I think fixing this on the packaging side is less invasive than > > hacking the upstream autofoo stuff. > > - IMO, Evgeni's original patch in -3.3 matches what has been done for > > quite a few other packages regarding to multiarch; obviously, the > > build dependency on libmysqlclient-dev should be versioned. > > - An alternative would be to use mysql_config, as proposed by > > Salvatore; patches against -3.2 and -3.3 attached. > > - Salvatore's patch (with "dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_MULTIARCH") > > in configure.in) indeed looks not so elegant; OTOH that's the same as > > in the already existing debian/patches/02_libav_multiarch.patch, so > > it's at least consistent. > > > > I guess someone needs to decide what we want to have in wheezy :) > > It's been some weeks again since this; are we any closer to a resolution?
My guess is that everbody was waiting for an advice by the release team; so thanks for chiming in :) > From glancing at the options Gregor's mysql_config patch looks reasonable, > though I have not tested it. It is certainly minimal. Ok, thanks. I just found a small issue with it: squeeze's mysql_config doesn't know about the "--variable=[pkglibdir]", so we technically need a versioned dependency on libmysqlclient-dev (probably >= 5.5, I don't find anything in the upstream or Debian changelog). In this case we might as well go with Evgeni's original patch, and just add a ">= 5.5.17-4" to the libmysqlclient-dev build dependency. > Removal is also an option of course, though it would be a shame to waste > your work on this bug. More importantly, it would make its users unhappy (which are not so few). > But if motion is to be in Wheezy, it needs to be > maintained for at least the next three years and it currently isn't getting > any love from the maintainer at all. Right, the package could be maintained a bit more actively; anyway, the bug should be fixed in unstable in any case, and the removal question is up to the RT :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rolling Stones: Midnight Rambler
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