[debian-mysql] Bug#793316: Bug#793316: transition: mysql-5.6

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:06:02AM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> 2015-07-23 13:15 GMT+03:00 Robie Basak <robie.basak at ubuntu.com>:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:59:15AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >> Didn't we agree that we would release Stretch with only mariadb? When do you
> >> plan to start working on that so we can drop mysql-* from testing?
> >
> > No, that was never agreed. I'm looking after the mysql-* packaging at
> > the moment (with help from Andreas - thanks!), and have no plans to drop
> > mysql-* from testing (only mysql-5.5, to be replaced by mysql-5.6).
> 
> The agreement of the pkg-mysql-maint team, both as stated and as
> executed, has been that Oracle MySQL, MariaDB and maybe also Percona
> can exist in the Debian repositories side by side, and for now at
> least they all have a significant user base and providing them is
> aligned with the general Debian mission to be the biggest and most
> universal distro.
> 
> The wish of the release team and security team has been to keep just
> one MySQL variant. If such a decision is made, it must be made above
> the pkg-mysql-maint team as the team will never be able to agree which
> favourite is the best one.

Soo.... shall I just decide we're shipping Maria then?

In which case this transition may become moot.

(I am half serious. The other half of me is slightly surprised this
situation is still unresolved.)


-- 
Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw at debian.org
Debian Developer                         http://people.debian.org/~jmw

4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC  74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/attachments/20150908/360efe3c/attachment.sig>