[debian-mysql] MariaDB status

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello Keith,

2013/10/28 Tom Marble <tmarble at info9.net>:
> On Friday (October 25) I sent an e-mail directly to the ftpmasters
> asking for the disposition of the MariaDB packaging.  I have not
> heard back yet, but I will continue to work this issue.

Yes, MariaDB is has been in the new queue for a month and we hope
ftp-masters would show it some love to get it forward.

>> My organization is keen on replacing MySQL with MariaDB and I think I can get approval from my manager to spend some work time contributing to this effort. Is there an ETA as to when the MariaDB packages will be available in jessie?
>
> Excellent.. what is your nick on OFTC?
>
> If you would like to get going on testing we can build packages for
> you for jessie.  It would be great, in fact, to get some more "real world"
> testing!

Check out page https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/MariaDBPlan

There are ready made binaries for multiple series, but not Jessie.
Current package does not build on Jessie as the Debian policy standard
is too high and also build-dep libreadline-gplv2-dev I think is called
libreadline-dev in Jessie. If you want, you can try to find a way to
get these automatically downgraded when building in a Jessie
environment.