[debian-mysql] percona vs. mariadb

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Jonathan Aquilina's message of 2013-03-07 00:35:55 -0800:
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Bjoern Boschman <bjoern at boschman.de> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > Am 07.03.2013 09:24, schrieb Jonathan Aquilina:
> > > In regards to percona, for what i have see all one needs to really do is
> > > add the percona repository as the packages already exist there. What
> > > else from the debian side would need to be done?
> >
> > for me (and most debian users) it's still a difference if I'm using an
> > external repository or the official debian repo.
> >
> > additionally on the percona repo you will immediately hit into version
> > upgrades. so there is no real stable branch afaik which is one of the
> > most important things to me for using debian stable
> >
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> Arent those upgrades mostly security and bug fixes?
> 

Yes, they are. The Percona Repo's are going to move forward at about the
same rate as the Debian stable-security repos because thats the world
Oracle has built for MySQL and Percona sits downstream from Oracle.

Actually I'm not so down on that. It turns out Oracle is doing a good
job of not breaking too many things in these stable updates. I only
don't like the opaque nature of things which leave Debian's users in an
unfamiliar position of not knowing for sure if they are vulnerable or not.