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| Lars Tangvald (lars-tangvald) wrote Re: myodbc uses internal libmysqlclient functions no longer exported by 5.7 | #1 |
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Getting myodbc working with 5.7 would be a fairly significant task:
* It would require updating to 5.3 which is non-trivial since upstream has switched from autoconf to cmake, so packaging would need changes.
* It would still need patching due to a known issue with the current 5.3 packages.
One suggestion is:
Remove myodbc:
The package has not been maintained in a while, and there are no hard dependencies on it. It is the default alternative for libreoffice-
Once upstream has finished the work on MySQL 5.7 we can try to update myodbc in proposed to get it back into the release, but there is a significant chance there won't be enough time.