Package: libmariadb3 Version: 1:10.3.36-0+deb10u1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The libmariadb3 package requires mariadb-common, but this last one will modify the /etc/mysql/my.cnf. The library is not only use on a host having mariadb as a server, this is used on clients or on server with other flavor of mysql , in mytop for exemple. Installing this on a server using mysql.com packages or perconna packages will alter the server configuration of /etc/mysql/my.cnf * What led up to the situation? install of mytop that requires libdbd-mysql-perl => libmariadb3 => mariadb-common * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? As this machine is not a mariadb server but a mysql server installing this caused problems with the my.cnf file, i am locked by this requirement of libmariadb * What was the outcome of this action? each apt action return now an error as the package fail : update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/mysql/mariadb.cnf doesn't exist * What outcome did you expect instead? installing a client library should not require anything on the server side and should not modify server configuration of mariadb or other mysql flavors (imho ;p) -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.13 APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'oldoldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.254-vs2.3.9.12aq (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages libmariadb3 depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10+deb10u1 ii libgnutls30 3.6.7-4+deb10u9 ih mariadb-common 1:10.3.36-0+deb10u1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u2 libmariadb3 recommends no packages. libmariadb3 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
