Hi, Kristian, This was done to improve coexistence with MySQL. As MariaDB drifts farther from MySQL, there might be more and more users who could want to install them side by side, so it's important to reduce conflicts on file names.
On Sep 26, Kristian Nielsen via developers wrote: > Here is a case in point about the problem with unnecessary deprecation > warnings. It's not just me ;-): > > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/suppress-mariadb-11-deprecation-warnings/ > > Is there a way to prevent deprecation warnings from appearing when > executing the 'mysql' and 'mysqldump' commands? There are > applications, such as Zabbix, that expect an XML when executing > these commands, and this warning breaks the format. > > I mean messages like this: "mariadb mysql: Deprecated program namein > a future release, use '/usr/bin/mariadb' instead" > > Why remove backwards compatibility with binary names? There's no > technical necessity to do so, and it breaks things for the users. > Regards, Sergei Chief Architect, MariaDB Server and secur...@mariadb.org _______________________________________________ developers mailing list -- developers@lists.mariadb.org To unsubscribe send an email to developers-le...@lists.mariadb.org
