Affects: mysql-5.7 Hello!
Thanks for the report. The same lines are also in https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-mysql/mysql.git/tree/debian/rules#n215 Git history shows the line is inherited way back from 5.5 times. As MariaDB and MySQL and functionally equvalent, we try to keep their packaging identical as much as possible. If the packages divert, then the amount of testing/maintenance increases. This is a change that should be done in both packages at the same time, to avoid a situation that the change is reintroduced later when somebody maintaining MariaDB compares to MySQL packages and copies over these lines to unify assumed packaging differences.
