[debian-mysql] MariaDB in Jessie

[Clint Byrum]

Oops, forgot to include debian-release in the response.

Excerpts from Clint Byrum's message of 2014-09-13 19:35:51 -0700:
> 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.