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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> Date: 2016-09-07 23:13 GMT+02:00 Subject: Re: MySQL support removed from GDAL & GRASS To: [email protected] On 09/07/2016 10:58 PM, Martin Landa wrote: > 2016-09-07 22:33 GMT+02:00 Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]>: >> Thanks to the lovely mess created by the MySQL/MariaDB maintainers, >> MySQL support has been removed from GDAL & GRASS. > > thanks for info. BTW, can you post details about broken mysql > packages? Thanks, Ma The MySQL packages aren't broken, but MariaDB is not available on mips64el which has become a release architecture for stretch. To support the transition from MySQL to MariaDB, new packages have been introduced to select the default variant, see the recent announcement by the MySQL/MariaDB maintainers: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/09/msg00000.html The gdal & grass packages used to depend on libmysqlclient-dev to build the MySQL support, but these needed to be switched to default-libmysqlclient-dev to fix the Release Critical bug in gdal: https://bugs.debian.org/836962 When default-libmysqlclient-dev is installed, it pulls in the libmariadbclient-dev-compat package which conflicts with libmysqlclient-dev ensuring it cannot be installed at the same time. Because the MariaDB packages failed to build on mips64el, gdal and all its reverse dependencies need to be removed from that architecture to not block transition to testing due to the missing binary packages on that release architecture. This is too much work to be worth the effort, which made me decide to remove the MySQL support instead. As said in my initial message in this thread, if there is sufficient user demand for MySQL/MariaDB support in GDAL & GRASS I may be persuaded to reinstate it after the MySQL/MariaDB maintainers have fixed their packages on all release architectures. I personally don't need MySQL support as I'm using PostgreSQL for all my database needs, so I'm perfectly happy leaving out the MySQL support. But I don't maintain the GIS packages only for my personal needs (I wouldn't maintain so many packages if I did). In Debian the interest of our users carry great weight as enshrined in our Social Contract after all. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- Martin Landa http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
