[Maria-discuss] Fwd: [debian-mysql] Bug#688505: MariaDB packaging.

A good wishlist. I think more should vote for this, quite clearly! cheers, -colin Begin forwarded message:

Resent-From: Robert de Bath From: Robert de Bath Subject: [debian-mysql] Bug#688505: MariaDB packaging. Date: 23 September 2012 16:25:39 GMT+08:00 Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org To: submit@bugs.debian.org Resent-Cc: Debian MySQL Maintainers Reply-To: Robert de Bath , 688505@bugs.debian.org

Package: mysql-server Version: 5.5.24+dfsg-8 Severity: wishlist

My very technically savvy webhost has recently switched from MySQL to MariaDB and claim it's for both technical and political reasons.

Both of these reasons (better performance and better licensing) appear to be good reasons for the software to be packaged as a Debian package and I expect it's getting to the point that someone will do it themselves.

BUT the software is technically still not a forked variant of MySQL but a patched version where the maintainers continually resync to the Oracle releases. For this reason I would like to see it treated as just a simple MySQL version within Debian. This way the users (ie: me) can simply switch by prodding apt in the right way.

For this to work seamlessly (unlike, for example, the recent multimedia troubles) the MariaDB package should be packaged identically to MySQL, which IMO is best done by the same Debian maintainers.

So my request is that you package the MariaDB as a secondary version of MySQL in such a way that the two packages can be seamlessly switched within the Debian system.

-- Rob. (Robert de Bath ) http://www.debath.co.uk/

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