[debian-mysql] status of MariaDB in Debian

[Marcin Kulisz]

On 2013-08-20 17:28:12, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been approached by Monty Widenius and Simon Phipps about the state
> of MariaDB in Debian, as most distros are providing MariaDB packages,
> and sometimes make it the default.

I had conversation with them as well, I just have few words to add to what Lucas
wrote in his mail.

> In a DebConf talk [1] (skip to 42:00 if you only want to hear about
> Debian packaging-related stuff), they clearly stated that they are
> willing to provide manpower that will act as "slaves of the mysql
> maintainers" and "slaves of the security team".
> [1] http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1073.en.html
> 
> It seems that the best plan would be to provide MariaDB as an
> alternative, rather than replace MySQL. MariaDB aims at staying
> compatible with MySQL, so it is not impossible that we can make it
> a drop-in replacement (though it was mentioned that having foo-mysql
> work with MariaDB could raise trademark issues even if it's only about
> the mysql API).
> 
> Security team, ftpmasters, do you have comments on that?
> 
> MySQL maintainers, would you be willing to mentor MariaDB people?
> Is someone else on pkg-mysql-maint@ willing to?

I have contact details from Simon (don't want them to publish in here as not
sure if he want to make them so public), so if Otto or anybody else want to
contact him just drop me an email and I'll give you all details I have.

Simon told me that they will give us as much help as we need to make MariaDB
suitable for Debian easier to maintain.

In my opinion it should be capable to be installed on the same machine as MySQL
so if there are any problems with libs provided by mysql and maria (clashing
namespaces, lib names etc.) we should push Maria guys to fix it.

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