I sav the mysql-libs new subpackage on Rawhide. Here is some comments 1/ as mysql requires mysql-libs mysql-devel (and -server) which requires mysql don't need to requires mysql-libs... 2/ /etc/my.cnf You put a note (perhaps my.cnf should be in the server package?) but i think it could even be in the -libs package. The [client] section can be used to set default parameters (character_set for PHP, for example) 3/ mysql_config This could probably go to -devel as this is used to get build options. 4/ i don't see the need to provides the %{_mandir}/man1/ndb_* as ndb support is not enabled. 5/ %{_libdir}/mysql the dir is owned by 3 packages (mysql, -libs and -devel) Should probably be owned only by -lis. This comments probably should go the the "merge review", but i don't find it. Regards.
Thanks for the comments. I'm adopting all of these in 5.0.37-2 except for moving mysql_config: the --port case at least is useful to client scripts, so I don't think it's a developer-only thing. I have some recollection that we deliberately decided on its placement once before.