A good wishlist. I think more should vote for this, quite clearly! cheers, -colin
Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: Robert de Bath <[email protected]> > From: Robert de Bath <[email protected]> > Subject: [debian-mysql] Bug#688505: MariaDB packaging. > Date: 23 September 2012 16:25:39 GMT+08:00 > Resent-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Resent-Cc: Debian MySQL Maintainers <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Robert de Bath <[email protected]>, [email protected] > > Package: mysql-server > Version: 5.5.24+dfsg-8 > Severity: wishlist > > My very technically savvy webhost has recently switched from MySQL to > MariaDB and claim it's for both technical and political reasons. > > Both of these reasons (better performance and better licensing) appear > to be good reasons for the software to be packaged as a Debian package > and I expect it's getting to the point that someone will do it themselves. > > BUT the software is technically still not a forked variant of MySQL > but a patched version where the maintainers continually resync to the > Oracle releases. For this reason I would like to see it treated as just > a simple MySQL version within Debian. This way the users (ie: me) can > simply switch by prodding apt in the right way. > > For this to work seamlessly (unlike, for example, the recent multimedia > troubles) the MariaDB package should be packaged identically to MySQL, > which IMO is best done by the same Debian maintainers. > > So my request is that you package the MariaDB as a secondary version of > MySQL in such a way that the two packages can be seamlessly switched within > the Debian system. > > -- > Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>) > <http://www.debath.co.uk/> > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-mysql-maint mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-mysql-maint -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ | twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles MariaDB: Community developed. Feature enhanced. Backward compatible. Download it at: http://www.mariadb.org/ Open MariaDB/MySQL documentation at the Knowledgebase: http://kb.askmonty.org/ _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
