Re: Proposing the retirement of default-mysql-* metapackages for Forky

[Preuße , Hilmar]

Am 29.05.2026 um 09:00 schrieb Simon Josefsson:

Hello,

In libnss-mysql, I resolved the bug report with a brief d/control patch:

- default-libmysqlclient-dev,
+ libmariadb-dev-compat,
- default-mysql-server,
+ mariadb-server-compat,

however the Description: field still refers to MySQL:

  Description: NSS module for using MySQL/MariaDB as a naming service
  libnss-mysql provides a Name Service Switch module that allows MySQL/MariaDB
  to act as a name service.
  .
  Its configuration is very flexible by allowing to set an SQL query per NSS
  call (getpwnam, getpwuid, ...).
  .
  It currently supports storage of passwd, group and shadow information.

> I thought about dropping 'MySQL' here and only refer to MariaDB, but > that begs the question about the name of the package. But that's an

upstream matter, and upstream probably supports MySQL still too, so
I doubt they rename this to libnss-mariadb.

Hilmar
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I have a similar issue with proftpd-mod-mysql. I tend to make the proftpd-mod-mysql a transitional package, which pulls in the to-be-created package proftpd-mod-mariadb.

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