Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency
Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2013-12-25 09:52:40 -0800:
> ❦ 25 décembre 2013 12:41 CET, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> :
>
> >> > Don't you think it would be more reasonable if the mariadb-client
> >> > contained a Provides: mysql-client, rather than changing each and every
> >> > software dependency in Debian?
> >>
> >> Maybe MariaDB wants to be the "default" MySQL implementation?
> >
> > MariaDB is not MySQL, so this is not really what you mean. Also I'd ask
> > that you suggest why you think there should be a default, and why you
> > think that "MySQL" should not be the default "MySQL".
>
> I am saying this because the bug reports about adding support for
> MariaDB were asking for mariadb-client | mysql-client and not
> mysql-client | mariadb-client. My question is genuine, I really don't
> know. Do we plan to transition away from MySQL to MariaDB?
No such plan is under way. I am one of the few people maintaining MySQL,
but others have recently stepped up to get us onto git, to get MySQL
5.6 ready, and to do general work, so MySQL seems like it may remain in
Debian. As long as it does, there is no "automatic transition". They are
forked, and more so than ever with MariaDB 10, so we should just treat
them as such.
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