On 22 Dec 1997, Scott Hanson wrote: > I'd like to split up the mysql package into the following. Does anyone > have any comments or suggestions? > > mysql-server > mysql-client (including libmysqlclient.so) > mysql-dev (header files and libraries) > mysql-bench > mysql-doc > > (The upstream source also includes perl libraries, but I'd rather > package these from CPAN.)
The perl lib that's included in the mysql distribution is much different from the DBI version from CPAN. I'm using the DBI version, but I guess some people out there still use the mysql version. Perhaps we should keep it in some mysql-perl package? > This will allow one to do client-only or server-only installations. In > addition, the mysql package is somewhat cumbersome as a whole, and the > new upstream version is even worse, with added tests, benchmarks, > crash-me scripts, etc. Great! > The server package will continue to be in non-free. The client is GPLd > and can go into contrib, and I think the other sub-packages can go > into contrib as well. Well, there was a discussion on debian-policy some time ago about such a setup. The problem is that all packages are built from a single source package (I think) and that package will have to be in non-free. Thus, we would not have full source for the contrib packages. We haven't decided yet how to handle this situation. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian has a logo! [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the logo PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA pages at http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .