Re: Proposing the retirement of default-mysql-* metapackages for Forky

[thomas]

On May 27, 2026 15:59, Stéphane Glondu <glo...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Le 26/05/2026 à 15:58, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
> > Can you confirm that no application will be compatible with one or the
> > other? Like, will my applications stop working with mysql, somehow?
> >
> > If not, I don't see the point.
>
> I can confirm that (unfortunately named) mysql-ocaml does not work with
> mysql. Using default-mysql-* package was misleading, expliciting mariadb
> is definitely a good thing in this case.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Stéphane

Having *one* package that breaks is very different from having *all* to fail.


Thomas