I've been trying to work with Percona 8 on RHEL8, but I've begun to run into an issue. Previously, (as of version 8.0.17), the percona-server-shared RPM provided the resource "libmysqlclient.so.21(libmysqlclient_21)(64bit)". But as of 8.0.18, that was removed. Now in a way that's fine... it seems like the intent is for the "libmysqlclient" one to be supplied by percona-server-shared-compat. however... when it was removed from percona-server-shared, it wasn't added to the compat package. So as things stand, I cannot update properly to a percona version higher than 8.0.17.

The tricky part here might be that percona-server-shared is providing the file "/usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.21.1.22", and percona-server-shared-compat isn't... so maybe it is more appropriate for percona-server-shared to still be providing "libmysqlclient.so.21(libmysqlclient_21)(64bit)"? I'm really uncertain. I just know that, unfortunately, there are some rpms out there (in EPEL, specifically) that are built to explicitly require "libmysqlclient.so.21(libmysqlclient_21)(64bit)", not "libmysqlclient.so.21()(64bit)", so I need something on the Percona side to at least report that it meets that requirement.

Here's some sample evidence from dnf: