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? * When trying to build out-of-tree mroonga engine (not yet released in 10.0 but already merged though (MDEV-5222)): libmariadbclient packages have been removed in favor of libmariadb-client-lgpl(-compat?). The latter provide mariadb_config which should be used instead of mysql_config AFAIU. The problem is that mariadb_config does not provide everything mysql_config used to provide and which is used to build mroonga (namely '--plugindir' and '--variable=pkglibdir' are missing and '--version' returns 5.5.40 (don't think that's a problem as long as 5.5.40 and 10.0 client protocol is the same, which should be the case AFAIK)): $ mysql_config Usage: /usr/bin/mysql_config [OPTIONS] Options: --cflags [-I/usr/include/mysql -DBIG_JOINS=1 -fno-strict-aliasing -g] --include [-I/usr/include/mysql] --libs [-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmysqlclient -lpthread -lz -lm -lrt -ldl] --libs_r [-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmysqlclient_r -lpthread -lz -lm -lrt -ldl] --plugindir [/usr/lib/mysql/plugin] --socket [/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock] --port [0] --version [5.5.40] --libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmysqld -lpthread -lz -lm -lrt -lwrap -lcrypt -ldl -laio] --variable=VAR VAR is one of: pkgincludedir [/usr/include/mysql] pkglibdir [/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu] plugindir [/usr/lib/mysql/plugin] $ mariadb_config Copyright 2011 Monty Program AB Get compiler flags for using the MariaDB client library. Usage: mariadb_config [OPTIONS] --cflags [-I/usr/include/mariadb -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wunused -Wno-uninitialized] --include [-I/usr/include/mariadb] --libs [-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmariadb] --libs_r [-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmariadb] --version [5.5.0] --socket [/tmp/mysql.sock] --port [3306] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org