Hi, Otto! On Jun 24, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > I am returning to this age-old discussion about libdbd-mysql-perl as > dependency in Debian: > > > really? why libdbi-perl is required but libdbd-perl is optional? > > the one makes no sense without the other. and libterm-readkey-perl > > is required, why it's really optional, everything works without it. > > In MySQL 5.6 this dependency also still exists: > But it has been dropped in MySQL 5.7 packaging. In 5.7 it is not even > a Recommends or Suggests, but completely removed. > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mysql-5.7.git/tree/debian/control > > I don't know what to do about this because I don't really understand > what or how the mysql client does with perl library dependencies. It > is a C program, does it really use the perl library in any way? So > auxilary script does something? > > Can we drop the dependency on libdbd-mysql-perl, and starting from what > version?
mariadb-client-10.1 installs innotop and mysqlreport perl scripts that need libdbi-perl and libdbd-mysql-perl. mariadb-server-10.1 installs mysql_convert_table_format, mysql_setpermission, and mysqlhotcopy scripts that need libdbi-perl and libdbd-mysql-perl. I don't know what Debian policies say about installing scripts without required dependencies. May be it's allowed. If not, options are: - move them all into a separate mariadb-perl-utils package - rewrite them not to use DBI - remove them completely from debian packages note that innotop, as far as I remember, exists as a package an debian, so that can be easily removed, if debian's innotop is not much different from ours. Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
