On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 06:35:22PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > 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. Ok, either of those sounds sensible. Perhaps you could choose one and see how it gets on with the auto-builders? Evgeni's original patch got an ack from the reporter at least, so maybe that's the one to go for. Cheers, -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51 <directhex> i have six years of solaris sysadmin experience, from 8->10. i am well qualified to say it is made from bonghits layered on top of bonghits
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