Clint: > All packages that at the moment depend directly on mysql-client should > instead have something like: > > Depends: the-one-they-tested-with | virtual-mysql-client
Otto: > At the moment in unstable the packages mysql-server-5.5 and > mariadb-server-5.5 have > > Provides: mysql-virtual-server > > and mysql-client-5-5 and mariadb-client-5.5 have > > Provides: mysql-virtual-client The correct name is 'virtual-mysql-server' with virtual first, and also 'virtual-mysql-client'. My text above had typo and the original text from Clint was correct. > And there is still no pointer to the reasoning behind such names. This name has been decided in the pkg-mysql-maint group I believe a long time ago and currently in use in MySQL packages. I cannot point to any message URL as I don't know exactly who or when made this decision, but at least recent query on the team mailing list showed that the decision is not going to be reverted now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
