[debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

2014-08-27 13:55 GMT+03:00 Bjoern Boschman <bjoern at boschman.de>:
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> Although my opinion is to let Debian users decide which fork to use I
> can fully understand release/security team concerns.

I also think there are fairly good reasons to provide multiple
versions and let users decide. Also, personally I would also feel very
depressed if my work on MariaDB packaging for Debian that I've done
for the last 1,5 years would turn out to be useless.. I also have the
feeling and experience that a lot of people want to see MariaDB
finally enter Debian. The ITP was filed already in 2010[1] but only
about a year ago it actually was closed, while during that time every
other major distro has included MariaDB  - and by now many big distros
have even decided to default to MariaDB over MySQL. We can for sure
assume that there is user demand for this package in Debian to
motivate that it should be available.


> So which way to go?
> * stick with mysql and start transition -> 5.6
> * replace mysql with mariadb and start transition -> 10.0
> * create an ecosystem where several forks may live side by side

There is one more option to this list: stick with what is in Debian testing now.

The stuff that is in testing has been agreed on internally by the
pkg-mysql team and it has passed all the QA and there is assurance
that it works well. Yes, it's not the fancy new stuff, but then again
Debian is known for being very stable (and slow to introduce new
stuff) and shipping mysql-5.5 and mariadb-5.5 parallel for the
duration of one release would fit Debian well.

Also keep in mind that the 5.5 versions aren't going to go sour in our
hands. They are shipped in many other long term releases of other
major distros and are likely to get security updates for a long time.


> As the transition timeframe is quite close we need a decision!
> This decision should be done by the release team agreed together with
> your collegues at ubuntu/canonical as we should definately *not* fork
> this decision!

Ubuntu 14.04 shipped with mysql-5.5 in main and mariadb-5.5, mysql-5.6
and percona-xtradb-cluster in universe. I am not saying this is
optimal, but it can and is a source of security update releasing
people if a Debian release is in sync.

If we really only want to pick just one flavour, the pkg-maint team
will probably not be able to agree and it would be better resolved by
maybe the tech-ctte.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565308