Hi all, The new style dbconfig-common packages live already for some time in the archive, and I haven't received any complaint/bug yet about the database dependent packages. This means that I believe it is time to bug the maintainers of packages that depend on dbconfig-common with a wish list bug to change their dependencies to the right package.
Because there are lots of packages involved, I want to share my proposed report here and check that there are no objections. Please find my proposed text attached, as well as a dd list for the maintainers involved (ironic note, I'm on the list myself). I'd love to hear your comments. Paul
Title: please depend on database specific dbconfig-<dbtype> package instead of dbconfig-common Dear maintainer, Your package depends on dbconfig-common. Some time ago I introduced database type specific packages in the dbconfig framework. I announced this on debian-devel¹. Now it is time to request you to change the dependency of your package to depend on the dbconfig-<dbtype> packages matching the database(s) that your package supports. For the convenience of system administrators that don't want dbconfig-common to handle the database handling, I also introduced a package called dbconfig-no-thanks, which will prevent dbconfig-common from doing anything (just like answering no to the first dbconfig-common question). You should always have dbconfig-no-thanks as an (last) alternative to the dbconfig-<dbtype> package(s). So, how to make use of these new packages? The only change you have to do² is revisit your (pre-)dependencies/recommends/suggest. If you properly followed the dbconfig-common documentation, you have a dependency on dbconfig-common and at least a recommends (but probably a depends) on the command-line client(s) for the database type(s) you support. You should replace these with a depends on dbconfig-<dbtype> | dbconfig-no-thanks. Two examples. a) your package supports PostgreSQL, your dependencies now are Depends: dbconfig-pgsql | dbconfig-no-thanks b) your package supports sqlite3 or sqlite, your dependencies now are Depends: dbconfig-sqlite3 | dbconfig-sqlite | dbconfig-no-thanks If you don't need the command-line databse client for your package itself, i.e. you only added it because dbconfig-common needs it, you can now remove that as well, because now the <dbtype> packages take care themselves. For those of you that backport their packages via the Debian backports achive, I provide backports of dbconfig-common to jessie-backports. On request I can do the same with wheezy-backports-sloppy. For those of you that also provide packages elsewhere where you may not have dbconfig-common version 2.0.0 or higher, I can recommend the trick done by phpmyadmin: dbconfig-mysql | dbconfig-no-thanks | dbconfig-common (<< 2.0.0) Paul ¹ https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/12/msg00044.html ² Be aware, if your package supports multiple databases, you still need to set the dbc_dbtypes variable in you config script.
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