Re: About packages that depend on mysql-* / mariadb / virtual-mysql-*
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:41:15 +0200, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> We discussed this in the release team and concluded that having two
> libmysqlclient.so.18 files in two packages is likely to run into problems
> later if/when they diverge, so there is no point delaying that pain.
> Especially as they are not identical even now.
>
> I wonder if pkgconfig can be any help here? That involves a one-time change
> to client packages if they don't already use pkgconfig but doesn't have to
> be repeated if the default switches.
>
Client packages surely don't care about the specific SONAME? So long as
the .so symlink in the -dev package doesn't change, clients shouldn't
notice.
Cheers,
Julien
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