Re: mythtv 0.28+fixes20161017-dmo1 packages are uninstallabl…

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Author: Stephan Seitz
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Subject: Re: mythtv 0.28+fixes20161017-dmo1 packages are uninstallable
On Di, Okt 25, 2016 at 07:51:40 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
>If I try to upgrade to the latest mythtv packages, apt-get wants to remove
>mysql-server* and mysql-client*, which would leave myth without a database.


No, it would „migrate” you to mariadb. At least it did here. And it
worked very well.

>this seems to be because mythtv-common now depends on
>default-mysql-client, which depends on mariadb-client-10.0


Yes.

>this is probably a bug on the debian default-mysql-client package (which
>probably shouldn't depend on mariadb-client-10.0 - mariadb is NOT a drop-in
>replacement for mysql), but mythtv-common should depend on mysql-client (like
>it used to) at least until debian fixes this (or forever, if they dont).


I’m afraid, Debian considers mariadb as drop-in replacement for mysql. At
least for me it worked that way.
The default mysql in Debian is mariadb.

But you’re right. MythTV should depend on mysql or mariadb.

Shade and sweet water!
    
    Stephan


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