Re: Proposing the retirement of default-mysql-* metapackages for Forky

Am 29.05.2026 um 09:00 schrieb Simon Josefsson:

Hello,

> In libnss-mysql, I resolved the bug report with a brief d/control patch:
> 
> - default-libmysqlclient-dev,
> + libmariadb-dev-compat,
> - default-mysql-server,
> + mariadb-server-compat,
> 
> however the Description: field still refers to MySQL:
> 
>   Description: NSS module for using MySQL/MariaDB as a naming service
>   libnss-mysql provides a Name Service Switch module that allows MySQL/MariaDB
>   to act as a name service.
>   .
>   Its configuration is very flexible by allowing to set an SQL query per NSS
>   call (getpwnam, getpwuid, ...).
>   .
>   It currently supports storage of passwd, group and shadow information.
> 
 > I thought about dropping 'MySQL' here and only refer to MariaDB, but 
 > that begs the question about the name of the package.  But that's an
> upstream matter, and upstream probably supports MySQL still too, so
> I doubt they rename this to libnss-mariadb.
> 

I have a similar issue with proftpd-mod-mysql. I tend to make the 
proftpd-mod-mysql a transitional package, which pulls in the 
to-be-created package proftpd-mod-mariadb.

Hilmar
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