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

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> writes:

> n Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 02:30:11PM +0100, 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'd actually filed an upstream bug report when I found the build
> problem with mariadb, but they were not accomodating, see
> https://github.com/perl5-dbi/DBD-mysql/issues/481

Thanks.  I added the URL and left a note to future self and others.

For now I've just locally reverted to p5-DBD-mysql 4.   If only
everything just supported pgsql....