SUMMARY

I recently uninstalled `mariadb-server` on my system, and that made Amarok display an error dialog on startup (related to MySQL-embedded); besides the collection shows empty.

I am **not** using an external MySQL/mariadb connection. 


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Use a Debian/testing or Debian/unstable system
2. Install the `amarok` debian package
3. Ensure the `mariadb-server` debian package is uninstalled
4. Run amarok

OBSERVED RESULT

During startup, the following error message is displayed on a dialog and on a terminal when running `amarok --debug`:

```
amarok:         [ERROR__] [MySqlStorage] "MySQLe something failed! on library initialization failed, return code 1"
```

EXPECTED RESULT

No error messages during startup.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 12
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.11.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.17-amd64 (64-bit)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I guess that MySQL-embedded *should* work even when there's no MySQL/MariaDB server installed on the system, but somehow that is not the case. All I know is that installing the whole MariaDB-server-10.5 makes MySQLe work.

An easy approach to this problem would be to add `mariadb-server` as a recommended package in the `debian.rules` file (which is the basis to build the amarok debian package) - but at first sight, the Amarok git repo doesn't hold that file, and I don't know who handles distro packaging.

I do not know if this is reproducible on other distros as well.