[debian-mysql] Draft: Introducing default-mysql-server metapackages
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
pochu at debian.org
Sun Jul 10 12:56:45 UTC 2016
Thanks a lot for working on this and finding consensus among the team. I'm very
happy with the result.
On 09/07/16 12:29, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> A virtual package scheme virtual-mysql-* already exists since 2013,
> and will continue to exist. All MySQL variants in Debian (and outside
> in 3rd party repositories too) have Provides for these virtual-mysql-*
> packages. Maintainers can [should?] use "Depends: default-mysql-server
should or must. If other variants can satisfy the requirements, we should make
it easy for the user to switch to mysql, percona or whatever.
Looks good to me otherwise!
Cheers,
Emilio
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