Re: libmysqlclient12 and libmysqlclient14
"Christopher L. Everett" <ceverett@ceverett.com> writes:
> Maurits van Rees wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>>
>>So if I would remove libmysqlclient12 then these packages would be
>>removed as well. Not all packages that you mention are in this list.
>>But there are packages that also depend on packages in this list, so
>>they would be removed too. So let's look one step further:
>>
>>$ apt-cache rdepends libmysqlclient12 | sed "s/|//" | grep -v "Reverse Depends" | COLUMNS=120 xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sort | uniq | cut -d " " -f3 | xargs -n 1 apt-cache rdepends | sed "s/|//" | grep -v "Reverse Depends" | COLUMNS=120 xargs dpkg -l | grep ^ii | sort | uniq
>>ii libdbd-mysql-perl 2.9006-1 A Perl5 database interface to the MySQL database
>>ii libmyodbc 3.51.09-1 the MySQL ODBC driver
>>ii libmysqlclient12 4.0.24-10sarge1 mysql database client library
>>ii mysql-client-4.1 4.1.11a-4sarge2 mysql database client binaries
>>ii php4-mysql 4.3.10-16 MySQL module for php4
>>ii phpmyadmin 2.6.2-3 set of PHP-scripts to administrate MySQL over the WWW
>>ii python-mysqldb 1.2.1c2-1 A Python interface to MySQL
>>ii python2.2-mysqldb 1.2.1c2-1 A Python interface to MySQL
>>ii python2.3-mysqldb 1.2.1c2-1 A Python interface to MySQL
>>ii unixodbc 2.2.4-11 ODBC tools libraries
>>
>>
> For mysql-client-4.1 to require libmysqlclient12 is so wrong I can't even
> contemplate it rationally. It should require libmysqlclient14 only, as the
> upstream intended.
It doesn't require libmysqlclient12 directly. However, it depends on
libdbd-mysql-perl, which is built against libmysqlclient12. So rebuild
libdbd-mysql-perl against libmysqlclient14 and then libmysqlclient12
should be removable.
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