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[Honza Horak <hhorak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I'd like to package the native MariaDB client library as an RPM for 
Fedora. But I got into troubles when discussing the name of the RPM. In 
Fedora we have some rules about packages names and there are some other 
facts that need to be taken into account. These are restrictions I face:

* not to use underscope unless absolutely necessary
* follow upstream's name as much as possible (tarball is called 
mariadb_client-2.0.0-src.tar.gz)
* we already have mariadb-libs and there might be mariadb-client 
packages in the future, if we start follow upstream naming for 
subpackages, so we cannot use mariadb-libs or mariadb-client

Having these restrictions on my mind and seeing mariadb-native-client as 
a name for Windows installers, I think this would be also the best name 
for Fedora.

In practice the packages will include these files:

mariadb-native-client-2.0.0-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm
  /usr/lib64/mariadb/libmariadb.so.2
  LICENSE, README, ...

mariadb-native-client-devel-2.0.0-1.fc20.x86_64.rpm
  /usr/bin/mariadb_config
  /usr/include/mariadb/*
  /usr/lib64/mariadb/libmariadb.so
  /usr/lib64/mariadb/libmysql.so
  /usr/lib64/mariadb/libmysqlclient.so
  /usr/lib64/mariadb/libmysqlclient_r.so

By this mail I'd like to check if you, MariaDB upstream, will be OK with 
that (no response means confirmation).

Regards,
Honza