Re: Bug#732878: Add MariaDB as an alternative dependency
Excerpts from Ben Hutchings's message of 2013-12-25 04:32:01 -0800:
> On Wed, 2013-12-25 at 03:41 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2013-12-25 03:36:30 -0800:
> > > ❦ 25 décembre 2013 08:27 CET, Thomas Goirand <zigo@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".
>
> Similarly,
>
> wodim is not cdrecord
> LibreOffice is not OpenOffice.org
> Iceweasel is not Firefox
> etc.
>
> so clearly we should never have implemented an automatic transition from
> one to the other...
>
As far as I know, we are not planning any such automatic transition from
MySQL to MariaDB. They will both remain in Debian as long as there are
parties available to maintain them. Percona Server will also be arriving
soon, and now I see talk of Galera enabled MySQL variants as well.
This is quite a bit different from those three desktop programs you
mentioned.
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