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

[Robie Basak]

On Tue, Sep 08, 2015 at 11:03:28PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> > 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?

Please, let's bring this to a conclusion. Right now, it seems to me that
every time something related to MySQL comes up, this happens:

You: I thought we were switching to MariaDB?
Us: No, our decision is to ship both.
You: We don't want to ship both.

<time passes>

You: I thought we were switching to MariaDB?
Us: No, our decision is to ship both.
You: We don't want to ship both.

This isn't helping us make progress.

As far as I can see, these are the options:

1) We carry and ship both, which I believe is the preference of the
Debian MySQL Maintainers team by default since we do not agree to any
other option. We have representatives from both sides who are working
together and putting in the work to make this work technically.

2a) We carry both in unstable, but only MySQL in testing.

2b) We carry both in unstable, but only MariaDB in testing.

3a) We drop MariaDB completely, keeping only MySQL in unstable and
testing.

3b) We drop MySQL completely, keeping only MariaDB in unstable and
testing.

The Debian MySQL Maintainers team is prepared to do option 1, but it
seems you are not. I do not consider any of the other options to be
acceptable.

All the other options involve picking one over the other. If you insist
on not picking option 1, I ask that you make a considered choice, ask
questions of each variant as you need, pick one, and explain your
reasons (I presume that option 2 vs 3 isn't relevant to you, but you can
still pick between a and b).

I suspect that if you don't pick option 1 then we will be at a stalemate
and will need to refer this to tech-ctte, but this way they will have
some material to start with.

Let's get this rolling with a goal of making a decision.

Thanks,

Robie