[debian-mysql] MariaDB in Jessie

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Jonathan Wiltshire's message of 2014-09-13 15:01:54 -0700:
> On 2014-08-26 11:27, Colin Charles wrote:
> > Upstream will publish security releases for many years to come -- it
> > is the choice of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, so the commitment is
> > there
> 
> Can you quantify this? I mean, did anyone actually ask upstream what 
> their support commitment is going to be?
> 

Colin is upstream, and while he didn't make it a point to speak with the
voice of MontyProgram, I believe he does.

> >> However, newer is always newer, so shipping MariaDB 10.0 would be nice
> >> if we have time to finalize it after it comes out from the NEW queue..
> >> 
> > 
> > I agree.
> 
> 10.0 left NEW on 26th August. Since then, it hasn't been uploaded to 
> unstable, though I do see a version on mentors from yesterday.
> 
> It has the following problems:
> 
>   - lintian error build-depends-on-obsolete-package
>   - rewrites changelog history
> 
> It's past the end of transitions for Jessie. Does moving from MariaDB 
> 5.5 to 10.0 in Jessie have any transition implications? There's at least 
> one symbol that goes away completely.
> 

AFAIK, there aren't any packages that depend on libmariadbclient. The
biggest thing is that 10.0 is not guaranteed to be data-compatible with
MySQL 5.5, so care needs to be taken that there aren't any cases where
data from MySQL might be converted forward to MariaDB 10.0 leaving the
user unable to move back to MySQL.