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My fellow developers, |
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I've previously asked that packages which link to libmysqlclient.so be |
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moved to virtual/libmysqlclient as a {,R}DEPEND. There are some which |
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have done so but many have not. |
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There are major changes coming with MariaDB 10.2 and MySQL 5.7 so either |
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the devs will have to do it or users will have to rely on either |
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revdep-rebuild or @preserved-rebuild. |
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MySQL 5.7 is moving to libmysqlclient.so.20 and MariaDB is providing |
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libmariadbclient.so (LGPL). |
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For packages that still depend on virtual/mysql but really only need to |
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link to libmysqlclient.so, change to virtual/libmysqlclient:= to help |
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users with rebuilds. |
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A few packages, dev-db/myodbc comes to mind, will need certain slots of |
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virtual/libmysqlclient that I have yet to finalize. |
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In addition, some packages will break if they depend on private APIs |
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exposed in previous libmysqlclient.so's as upstreams are tightening down. |
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Thank you, |
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Brian |
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MySQL Team Lead |
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