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Hello!
Debian 8 "Jessie" has been released to today. It is the first official Debian release that ships with MariaDB (it has MariaDB 10.0.16 and MySQL 5.5.42). MariaDB client for C (the LGPL version) is also included.
Release notes[1] state that in Debian 9 only one MySQL variant will be shipped.
Is this driven by the complexity of maintaining two concurrent variants and/or maintenance effort and/or other factors?
Hopefully the decision will tip towards MariaDB.
What will make this decision easier when Debian 9 comes around?
The MariaDB "request for packaging" issue[2] was opened in bugs.debian.org in 2010. I started doing MariaDB packaging for Debian in 2013. The path here has been long and I am glad that this milestone is finally reached.
Thanks Otto for making this possible. FYI, travis-ci testing in development, https://github.com/openquery/mariadb-server/blob/travis-ci-10.0/.travis.yml Probably could do something for packaging tests here. Build/test time is limited to 50 mins so its probably too much of a stretch to get packaging and content tests in the same package. Build time is only about 5 mins. -- Daniel Black, Engineer @ Open Query (http://openquery.com.au) Remote expertise & maintenance for MySQL/MariaDB server environments.