From b9d4976350124572fae0ccd397d84df8ddc34999 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Lambley <dave@lambley.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:56:11 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Correct email address

---
 Makefile.PL | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index bbca1a8a..be4000bf 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ if (eval $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION >= 5.43) {
         'Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>',
         'Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com>',
         'Daniël van Eeden <daniel.vaneeden@booking.com>',
-        'Dave Lambley <davel@isosceles.(none)>',
+        'Dave Lambley <dave@lambley.me.uk>',
         'David Farrell <davidnmfarrell@gmail.com>',
         'David Steinbrunner <dsteinbrunner@pobox.com>',
         'Giovanni Bechis <giovanni@bigio.snb.it>',

From e54914a547219b46d06bf3f5b42bb37152941e02 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Lambley <dave@lambley.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:10:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Carefully compare library version numbers

---
 Makefile.PL | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index be4000bf..5a763d7d 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ sub Configure {
                 }
 
                 if ($param eq 'version') {
-                  if ($str !~ /^[89]\./) {
+                  if ((split(/\./, $str, 2))[0] < 8) {
                     die "DBD::mysql requires MySQL 8.x or newer for building. Version reported by $command: $str";
                   }
                 }

From c38d218bbf1654d24ef2beee21a04640bb9078ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Lambley <dave@lambley.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:11:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Warn that MariaDB's client library does not work

Debian no longer supplies libmysqlclient. It provides symlinks from
mysql_config to mariadb_config. Unfortunately this gives us an unhelpful
compilation error because we are using MySQL exclusive features.
---
 Makefile.PL | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 5a763d7d..fb5fa3da 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -150,7 +150,18 @@ assert_lib(
   LIBS => $opt->{libs},
 );
 
-print "Looks good.\n\n";
+if ($opt->{libs} =~ /mariadb/) {
+  print <<"MSG";
+
+The chosen MySQL client library appears to be MariaDB's. Compilation may fail.
+Consider DBD::MariaDB or installing Oracle's MySQL client library.
+
+
+MSG
+}
+else {
+  print "Looks good.\n\n";
+}
 
 sleep 1;