Hi! tl;dr: Anyone here interested in trying to push various open source projects in Debian and the upstreams to use mariadb-server directly instead of via default-mysql-server dependency? ## Situation Back in 2016 Debian introduced the virtual packages: - default-mysql-server - default-mysql-client - default-libmysqlclient-dev In Debian these have since pointed to MariaDB, and in Ubuntu they point to MySQL. Not much has happened since. There are only a handful packages in Debian that have declared an explicit dependency on MariaDB directly. Most packages continue to depend on default-mysql-* instead of MariaDB directly. As MariaDB and MySQL diverge, those packages will eventually end up depending on MySQL only unless they transition slowly to depend on MariaDB directly. It didn't happen organically, so it would need a push. Anyone here interested in taking up such a task? It requires talking to all the upstreams to officially support/adopt MariaDB going forward. ## Background - https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/09/msg00000.html - https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00832.html - https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/default-mysql-server - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mysql-defaults ## Package lists # apt rdepends default-mysql-client default-mysql-client Reverse Depends: |Depends: audiolink |Depends: zoneminder |Depends: wordpress Recommends: tango-db |Depends: sqitch |Recommends: rsyslog-mysql |Depends: roundcube-mysql |Depends: rt5-db-mysql |Depends: rt4-db-mysql |Depends: redmine-mysql |Recommends: prelude-manager |Depends: postfixadmin |PreDepends: openstack-compute-node Depends: opendnssec-enforcer-mysql |Depends: ocsinventory-reports |Recommends: oar-server-mysql |Recommends: mysql-workbench |Suggests: mysql-sandbox Suggests: munin-plugins-core Suggests: motion Depends: libreoffice-canzeley-client Depends: lcmaps-plugins-jobrep-admin |Depends: kamailio-mysql-modules |Recommends: icinga2-ido-mysql Suggests: education-main-server |Depends: dbconfig-mysql |Suggests: cedar-backup3 |Depends: bacula-director-mysql |Depends: automysqlbackup # apt rdepends default-mysql-server default-mysql-server Reverse Depends: |Depends: python3-testing.mysqld (>= 1.0.2) |Depends: zoph |Recommends: zoneminder |Recommends: zabbix-server-mysql |Recommends: zabbix-proxy-mysql |Suggests: wordpress Suggests: trojan |Recommends: sympa |Recommends: spip |Suggests: sogo |Suggests: rsyslog-mysql Suggests: roundcube-mysql |Suggests: rt5-db-mysql |Suggests: rt4-db-mysql |Suggests: redmine-mysql |Suggests: adminer |Suggests: python3-mysqldb |Suggests: pwman3 |Suggests: prometheus-mysqld-exporter Recommends: postfix-gld |Suggests: phpmyadmin Suggests: pdns-backend-mysql Suggests: orthanc-mysql |Depends: openstack-cloud-services |Depends: openstack-cluster-installer |Suggests: ocsinventory-server |Suggests: oar-server-mysql |Recommends: mysqltuner |Suggests: mysql-sandbox |Recommends: mediawiki |Suggests: mailman3 |Suggests: mailman3-web Suggests: libreoffice-canzeley-client |Suggests: libreoffice-sdbc-mysql Suggests: inspircd Suggests: icingadb |Suggests: icinga2-ido-mysql Suggests: goval-dictionary Suggests: golang-github-ctdk-goiardi-dev Suggests: goiardi Suggests: digitemp |Depends: diaspora-common |Suggests: dbconfig-mysql Suggests: collectd-core |Recommends: cacti |Recommends: bacula-director-mysql |Recommends: audiolink # apt rdepends default-libmysqlclient-dev default-libmysqlclient-dev Reverse Depends: Depends: libboinc-app-dev Depends: libvtk9-dev Depends: urweb Depends: librust-mysqlclient-sys-dev Suggests: qtbase5-gles-dev Suggests: qtbase5-dev |Depends: postgresql-16-mysql-fdw Depends: libpoco-dev Recommends: newlisp |Suggests: mysql-sandbox Depends: libmysql-ocaml-dev Depends: libmysql++-dev Depends: libmailutils-dev Depends: kannel-dev Depends: libhoel-dev Suggests: libglpk40 Depends: libgdal-dev Suggests: fp-units-db-3.2.2 Suggests: fp-units-win-db-3.2.2 Depends: cl-sql-mysql