Bug 669624

Summary:	Request to add dev-perl/DBD-MariaDB
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	RumpletonBongworth <kfm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hydrapolic
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.dbi.users/2018/07/msg37622.html
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description RumpletonBongworth 2018-10-25 19:47:27 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2019-07-10 13:21:31 UTC

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(+)