Source: mariadb-10.3 Source-Version: 10.3.0-0+exp2 Severity: normal Hi!
While checking the libraries from the mariadb-connector-c project, and switching some code to use them, I noticed that the mariadb-server embeds them upstream. And in Debian, those library packages are generated now (in experimental) from the embedded copies instead of the proper upstream mariadb-connector-c source. I think this is a bad idea, because (AFAIUI) the mariadb-server statically links them anyway, and this would mean that we are tied to have whatever mariadb-connector-c version is embedded in one of the particular mariadb-server we happen to ship (see #877622, for an example of this problem). Also there is this upstream report, which I'm not entirely sure can be read as a request to unbundle the mariadb-connector-c, <https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/CONC/issues/CONC-211> (which I think would be the correct thing to do no matter what). But there is always the danger of that happening. And for starters that would imply having to use an epoch in the mariadb-connector-c version. :( Thanks, Guillem
