Hello Am Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:35:09 +0200 schrieb Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>: > Christian Hammers wrote: > > Am Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:00:36 +0200 > > schrieb Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>: > > > >> Christian Hammers <ch@debian.org> (25/07/2009): > >>> Nobody answered so I'm going to upload MySQL this evening and then > >>> file bug report with priority serious against the 142 packages > >>> currently depending on the old libmysqlclient15off. I tag them > >>> with user pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org > >>> usertag nnnnnn + libmysqlclient16 > >> Given you're still building libmysqlclient15-dev, packages > >> currently needing transitioning will get built/rebuilt against the > >> new mysql version, and won't be able to transition until mysql is > >> ready (independently of the RC bugs about that mysql transition). > >> Sounds like a bad plan. :( > > > > > > Meanwhile I learned that binNMUs are enough as the package indeed > > ships with an empty libmysqlclient15-dev package so I closed the > > bugs. > > > > Hi Christian, > > I maintain one of the packages (rsyslog) which build-depends on > libmysqlclient15-dev. > I plan to make a sourceful upload soonish, so I was wondering if I > should also change the build dependency from libmysqlclient15-dev to > libmysqlclient-dev. > > What's your recommendation as mysql maintainer? > Will the libmysqlclient15-dev transition package go away and if so, > when? You don't need to do a sourceful upload just for mysql because we will ask for Binary NMUs once MySQL has build on all archs. But if you do one anyway we recommend to use libmysqlclient-dev so you don't have to change once we upload MySQL-5.4 in two years or so :) bye, -christian-
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