Bug#1039702: mariadb-server: mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 dependency on mariadb-server required?

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hi Marc!

Indeed, your suggestion makes sense

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Bug#1039702: mariadb-server: mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2 dependency on mariadb-server required?

[Marc Lehmann]

Package: mariadb-server
Version: 1:10.11.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I found that the various compression plugins (e.g.
mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2) all depend on mariadb-server. If there
is no technical reason for this (apologies if there are, it looks
to me that there aren't), wouldn't it make more sense to depend on
mariadb-server-core?

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.0
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 
'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-debug'), (500, 
'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, x32

Kernel: Linux 6.1.35-schmorp (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_USER, TAINT_WARN, 
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mariadb-server depends on:
ii  adduser3.134
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82
ii  galera-4   26.4.13-1
ii  gawk   1:5.2.1-2
ii  iproute2   6.1.0-3
ii  libc6  2.36-9
ii  libdbi-perl1.643-4
ii  libpam0g   1.5.2-6
ii  libssl33.0.9-1
ii  libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii  lsof   4.95.0-1
ii  mariadb-client 1:10.11.3-1
ii  mariadb-common 1:10.11.3-1
ii  mariadb-server-core1:10.11.3-1
ii  passwd 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1
ii  perl   5.36.0-7
ii  procps 2:4.0.2-3
ii  psmisc 23.6-1
ii  rsync  3.2.7-1
ii  socat  1.7.4.4-2
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server recommends:
ii  libhtml-template-perl   2.97-2
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-bzip2   1:10.11.3-1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lz4 1:10.11.3-1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzma1:10.11.3-1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-lzo 1:10.11.3-1
ii  mariadb-plugin-provider-snappy  1:10.11.3-1
ii  pv  1.6.20-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20220412cvs-1
ii  mailutils [mailx]  1:3.15-4
pn  mariadb-test   
ii  netcat-openbsd 1.219-1

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