[debian-mysql] plans for mysql-5.6.git (was: Re: About packages that depend on mysql-* / mariadb / virtual-mysql-*)

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Robie already answered for the mysql parts..

2016-07-14 13:52 GMT+03:00 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>:
> Otto, do you plan to change the mariadb-x.y.git layout, too? DEP14 might
> be helpful there as well. At least for now (i.e. only 10.0 supported
> anywhere), you could go without the source-package branch-level that is
> in mysql.git (or are there still plans to merge mariadb into the unified
> repository at some point?)

Yes, I plan to use it once I import 10.2. It will be renamed then to
mariadb.git. MariaDB and MySQL packaging do not have a common history
and I don't see much value in merging those into one big repository.

> I think the archive/mysql-defaults.git repository could be removed, it
> serves no real purpose and does not contain any history that one might
> want to preserve.

OK, I removed it.