Henrik, 5.2.47 is a lot more clear for me though it relays on the fact MySQL chose not to release 5.2 themselves What are you going to do with 5.5 as it comes out ? Create 5.6 and hope MySQL will never release such a version ? I think it is confusing. I also think this is moving away from what things really are MariaDB 5.2.0 is based on 5.1.44 (whatever) and it just includes more changes than MariaDB 5.1.44 There is also MariaDB 5.3 which also may be based on the same base MySQL version though have even more changes.
If it was called MariaDB 5.2.47, would this be any more helpful? Or are you insisting it must be MariaDB 5.1.47 (with possible 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3 type of differentiation appended to that with some tag, like mariadb-5.1.47_2nd_edition-...)
May be some time in the future amount of changes becomes so large the base MySQL version will not be relevant any more but it will take time.
Regarding bug fixes, we hope to stay in sync for some time to come, yes. We don't want to work on our own bugs, this is something we are happy to share :-)
henrik
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