Version 1.0 of DBD::MariaDB was released in July. https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.users/2018/07/msg37622.html I would like for this to be added to portage for the benefit of anyone that requires proper unicode support in their MySQL-using Perl applications without having to resort to the risky approach of using SET NAMES and handling encoding/decoding manually. Currently, this requires that =DBD-mysql-4.42.0 be unmasked and protected against upgrades, which is not ideal. DBD::MariaDB effectively continues the valuable work carried out by PALI for the aforementioned DBD::mysql release release and simplifies matters by always using MySQL's utf8mb4 encoding over the wire. A such, I think it deserves to replace DBD::mysql as the standard choice for new application development - something that's more likely to happen if packaged by as many Linux distributions as possible.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2a1454dc63f9ba2913d0068b1729f906bbf47a4e commit 2a1454dc63f9ba2913d0068b1729f906bbf47a4e Author: Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-07-10 13:19:52 +0000 Commit: Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-07-10 13:20:20 +0000 dev-perl/DBD-MariaDB: Add w/ version 1.210.0 re bug #669624 By request of Kerin Millar Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/669624 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.66, Repoman-2.3.16 Signed-off-by: Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> dev-perl/DBD-MariaDB/DBD-MariaDB-1.210.0.ebuild | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ dev-perl/DBD-MariaDB/Manifest | 1 + dev-perl/DBD-MariaDB/metadata.xml | 16 +++++ 3 files changed, 96 insertions(+)
