[debian-mysql] percona vs. mariadb

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Bjoern Boschman's message of 2013-03-07 00:15:35 -0800:
> Hi Micah,
> 
> I cannot speak for the whole pkg-mysql team but for my personal opinion.
> I'm a percona user by myself :)
> 
> But in terms of debian first of all we have to get wheezy up and running
> which will be shipped with hopefully mysql-5.5.30
> 
> For wheezy+1 I'd vote not for letting debian decide what to ship and
> what not. So no replacement at all.
> 
> We should provide meta packages (like mysql-server, mysql-client) which
> still defaults to oracle builds. on top we should provide mariadb and
> percona which will fullfil those packages using the 'Provides' Tags
> 

These are already meta packages built by the mysql-5.5 source package.

If something else wants to Provide mysql-server and Break mysql-server-5.5
(since it would listen on port 3306 presumably), thats fine and I welcome
that sort of thing for the cases where something has a Recommends:
mysql-server.