On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 02:05:48PM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
* even MySQL 5.5 had a HIDDEN soname break on a minor update with
the
need of rebuild depending packages and now people will explain me
that two different forks are binary compatible - this is very
thin ice and can break with ANY minor update
AFAICT, this is a different question. IIUC, the plan is for clients to link
to the mariadb provided libraries. The mysql package would not ship client
libraries. So we're talking about protocol compatibility, not about library
SONAME/ABI compatibility.
-Toshio