[debian-mysql] status of MariaDB in Debian

[Bjoern Boschman]

Hi,

we've already had such a thread on pkg-mysql-maint started back in march
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2013-March/005562.html

The conclusion was that mariadb just aint mysql and therefor there won't 
be a replacement.

In the meantime Otto Kekälänien has done a very well job to create first 
mariadb packages for jessie but it seems he still got license issues.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2013-August/005940.html

But anyhow mariadb should be shipped as mariadb (also in terms of FHS).

Question that still remains:

How should packages behave that link against libmysqlclient-dev?

Am 20.08.2013 18:07, schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> However, currently the Debian MySQL maintainers don't keep up with
> even mysql alone. We still miss the Oracle 5.5 update from July in wheezy
> and in squeeze even the one from April!
>
> So unless we can get additional manpower into the Debian MySQL maintenance
> team so that they can keep up with security releases, having both is only
> making things worse.

In this point unfortunatelly I totally aggree with Moritz.
pkg-mysql is currently very low frequented.

I personally do some stuff to get mysql-server-5.6 in a state where it 
might get uploaded to experimental (but I'm the only one involved).

Clint Byrum and Nicholas Bamber are (correct me if I'm wrong) the main 
persons behind mysql-5.5

So this are 4 persons each working on 3 different versions.

When I started with my work on mysql-5.6 I was quite shocked that so 
less people are working on pkg-mysql within debian at all :-(

When Monty Widenius and Simon Phipps are willing to support Otto this 
would be great!

@Lucas: How may we involve/contact them?


Cheers
B