* Robie Basak [Mon May 23, 2016 at 02:16:52PM +0100]:

> Please stop linking against libmysqlclient_r and link directly against
> libmysqlclient instead.

> Your package currently links against libmysqlclient_r. libmysqlclient_r
> was the thread-safe version of libmysqlclient in previous MySQL
> releases. However, libmysqlclient has been itself been made thread-safe
> since before the current libmysqlclient18. Thus libmysqlclient_r is
> currently deprecated and provided as a compatibility symlink only, and
> will disappear in MySQL 5.7. This change can be made now, in advance of
> a possible future transition to libmysqlclient20, which does not provide
> the _r variant.

> In Ubuntu, we have done this with the attached quilt patch, which I
> believe is also applicable to Debian.

Any news on this one? Is there anything prevent the package
maintainer to upload a new package version with the patch applied?
libmysql++-dev isn't in testing because of this and the freeze for
stretch is coming closer.

regards,
-mika-

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