zoneminder remove dependency on mysql-server

[Ryan]

Binary package hint: zoneminder

Suggest removing mysql-server dependency or providing an additional ZoneMinder package which is not dependent on mysql-server. This way zoneminder can be installed so it uses mysql on a dedicated mysql server. A good example of this is mythbackend which uses mysql-server but the package is not dependent on it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aditya V (kroq-gar78)]

Maybe use "Recommends" instead of "Depends" in debian/control?

[Disassembler (disassembler-k)]

Would be also nice to add a possibility to have mariadb as backend.

So instead of
  Depends: mysql-server mysql-client
We'll have
  Depends: mariadb-client | mysql-client
  Recommends: mariadb-server | mysql-server

[Steve Gilvarry (steve-gilvarry)]

Resolved in more recent 1.28.1 package using recommends mysql-server | virtual-mysql-server

[Matthew Cooper (matthewacooper)]

Hi

Installing ZoneMinder on 17.10 and notice that it was going to install mysql-server as part of the install.

Is there a reason to why as this looks like mysql-server was move to Recommends?

Matthew