I am returning to this age-old discussion about libdbd-mysql-perl as dependency in Debian: 2015-07-21 19:50 GMT+03:00 Sergei Golubchik <vuvova@gmail.com>:
+ libdbi-perl, + libterm-readkey-perl, + mariadb-client-core-10.0 (>= ${source:Version}), + ${misc:Depends}, + ${perl:Depends}, + ${shlibs:Depends} +Recommends: libdbd-mysql-perl (>= 1.2202)
really? why libdbi-perl is required but libdbd-perl is optional? the one makes no sense without the other. and libterm-readkey-perl is required, why it's really optional, everything works without it.
In MySQL 5.6 this dependency also still exists: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mysql-5.6.git/tree/debian/control Package: mysql-client-5.6 Architecture: any Depends: debianutils (>=1.6), libdbd-mysql-perl (>= 1.2202), libdbi-perl, libterm-readkey-perl, But it has been dropped in MySQL 5.7 packaging. In 5.7 it is not even a Recommends or Suggests, but completely removed. http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/mysql-5.7.git/tree/debian/control I don't know what to do about this because I don't really understand what or how the mysql client does with perl library dependencies. It is a C program, does it really use the perl library in any way? So auxilary script does something? Can we drop the dependency on libdbd-mysql-perl, and starting from what version? - Otto