Re: p5-DBD-mysql and p5-DBD-MariaDB: update has caused serious breakage

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2025-09-19 at 19:30 BST, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I wonder if it's really necessary to exclude MariaDB from p5-DBD-mysql.
> If so that seems like a real Mess.pm for upstreams to have such a flag
> day.

I've allowed both mariadb and percona variants for p5-DBD-mysql for many 
years:

  https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commit/66d470aab2b6aaea7ac70b08719df8248f1470b7

I'm not the biggest user of this personally but my understanding from 
users is that it works fine.  This also means you aren't tied to a 
specific version of mysql in binary package repositories.

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