Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie
Excerpts from Colin Charles's message of 2014-10-01 11:57:41 -0700:
> Hi!
>
> On 2 Oct 2014, at 00:48, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > My personal feeling is that we should include the ones that have a
> > company ready to stake their reputation on it by committing publicly to
> > maintaining it for the life of Jessie. Oracle? Percona? MariaDB? Want
> > your fork in Debian? Let us know!
>
> As I have a vested interest in this, I'm shying away from discussion. But MariaDB will support MariaDB 5.5 for the lifetime of Jessie. We have made a similar commitment to Red Hat & SUSE for their enterprise releases as well.
In order for our friends on the security team to feel good about going
forward with multiple forks, this needs to be specific. Not "support
MariaDB", but "maintain the MariaDB packages in Jessie."
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