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Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency



On Wed, 2013-12-25 at 03:41 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2013-12-25 03:36:30 -0800:
> >  ❦ 25 décembre 2013 08:27 CET, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> :
> > 
> > > Don't you think it would be more reasonable if the mariadb-client
> > > contained a Provides: mysql-client, rather than changing each and every
> > > software dependency in Debian?
> > 
> > Maybe MariaDB wants to be the "default" MySQL implementation?
> 
> MariaDB is not MySQL, so this is not really what you mean. Also I'd ask
> that you suggest why you think there should be a default, and why you
> think that "MySQL" should not be the default "MySQL".

Similarly,

wodim is not cdrecord
LibreOffice is not OpenOffice.org
Iceweasel is not Firefox
etc.

so clearly we should never have implemented an automatic transition from
one to the other...

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.

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