Re: MySQL server and client virtual packages

2014-08-01 Thread James Page
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/08/14 15:06, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> This will enable the alternative MariaDB and Percona packages to >>> satisfy the dependency. MySQL 5.5, MariaDB 5.5 and PXC 5.5 are >>> all binary-compatible and most likely to work with any program >>> that c

Re: MySQL server and client virtual packages

2014-08-01 Thread Gunnar Wolf
James Page dijo [Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:57:44AM +0100]: > (...) > The wider intent is that all maintainers of packages that depend on > mysql-server or mysql-client are encouraged to add as alternative > dependencies the virtual packages virtual-mysql-server[1] or > virtual-mysql-client[2]. > > T

MySQL server and client virtual packages

2014-08-01 Thread James Page
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Fellow Devel's Over the last 6 months, we have introduced a few new MySQL variants into Debian and expanded the use of the existing (but never formalized AFAICT) virtual-mysql-* virtual packages to supporting switching in/out the different varian