Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:21:06AM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > [...]
> > > We, generally speaking of pkg-mysql, would favour shipping different
> > > mysql-forks starting of jessie. This would include oracle-mysql,
> > > mariadb, percona-xtradb-cluster, percona-xtradb-cluster-galera.
> > 
> > In general, we (the release team at least, and I believe the security 
> > team; please confirm) would prefer _fewer_ forks, not more - 
> > particularly when at least some of those forks aren't in testing yet 
> > (possibly not even in unstable).
> > 
> 
> This is such a delicate situation. IMO Debian should just ship one,

Full ack, we need to pick only one for jessie.

> So, I can't see Debian saying no to people
> who are willing to show up and do the work.

But their contributions cause further work down the chain, so there's
a point where we don't need to say "no", but rather "you can maintain
is in unstable and/or addon repositories"

Cheers,
        Moritz