[Mageia-dev] mariadb

[Balcaen John]

Le samedi 17 décembre 2011 17:14:52 Anssi Hannula a écrit :
> On 17.12.2011 15:59, Oliver Burger wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011, 15:45:42 schrieb Anssi Hannula:
> >> +1 for not naming it as libmariadb18 if it actually contains
> >> libmysqlclient.so.18.
> > 
> > But mariadb is not mysql, it's a kind of fork of mysql.
> > 
> > We don't call libreoffice openoffice and we don't call Mageia Mandriva, do
> > we?
> Fair points.
> 
> IMHO library packages should still be primarily named after the library
> they contain, regardless of project name.
> 
> But indeed we have no clear policy regarding that, making it kind of
> maintainer decision.
Well since we still don't know if we're going to follow mariadb path or mysql, 
we should probably better stick to mariadb inside the library name.
(Not to mention we don't know if mariadb is not going to change the library's 
name from libmysql to libmariadb.)

Regards,
 
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Balcaen John
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