Re: Bug#679402:
Steven Ayre <steveayre@gmail.com> writes:
> The rationale for putting it in a separate package is that it's possible
> that in future there might be multiple versions of MySQL in Debian (MySQL,
> MySQL Cluster, MariaDB, Percona etc).
> MySQL is already packaged and I'm currently working on packaging MySQL
> Cluster. This package lets you choose which MySQL variant to run, but a
> single mysql-tzdata would work with any of them and prevent common code
> being duplicated between the packages.
Ah, yes, that makes sense.
In the long run, I would be surprized if tzdata is the *only* common code
shared between a bunch of very similar packages. I would expect Debian
administrative tools and setup scripts and the like to also be shared.
So maybe you're on the right track with this package after all, but it
needs to be named something more generic and aspire to being the package
that holds all that shared stuff between the MySQL packages.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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