Re: Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-07 Thread Laurent Bigonville
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:39:50PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: As long as _MySQL_ maintainers are able (and want) to continue MySQL (or It's my understanding a lot of them jumped ship. Meh. +1 to kill MySQL for MariaDB. It's got a much better future. I see it more like a libc

Re: Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-07 Thread Clint Byrum
On 2013-05-07 08:34, Laurent Bigonville wrote: On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:39:50PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: As long as _MySQL_ maintainers are able (and want) to continue MySQL (or It's my understanding a lot of them jumped ship. Meh. +1 to kill MySQL for MariaDB. It's got a much better

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 06.05.2013 19:02, schrieb Thomas Goirand: I wonder what the plans of the MySQL maintainers are concerning MySQL vs MariaDB. Famously, Fedora made the switch. What will happen in Debian? What kind of transition would this mean? Would it be a drop-in replacement like Monty is pretending, or

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 19:17:47 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: But why should it _replace_ MySQL, why not providing it as an alternative MySQL'ish server? Because Oracle. Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Am 06.05.2013 19:33, schrieb Julien Cristau: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 19:17:47 +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: But why should it _replace_ MySQL, why not providing it as an alternative MySQL'ish server? Because Oracle. That alone does not count, since it is still OSS. As long as _MySQL_

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:39:50PM +0200, Patrick Matthäi wrote: As long as _MySQL_ maintainers are able (and want) to continue MySQL (or It's my understanding a lot of them jumped ship. Meh. +1 to kill MySQL for MariaDB. It's got a much better future. I see it more like a libc changeover.

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Clint Byrum
On 2013-05-06 10:02, Thomas Goirand wrote: I wonder what the plans of the MySQL maintainers are concerning MySQL vs MariaDB. Famously, Fedora made the switch. What will happen in Debian? What kind of transition would this mean? Would it be a drop-in replacement like Monty is pretending, or

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 06/05/13 19:02, Thomas Goirand wrote: Famously, Fedora made the switch Seems that also OpenSUSE and Arch (among others) did the switch https://kb.askmonty.org/en/distributions-which-include-mariadb/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, Just my two 2 cent: I would like to have an virtual package Database, to resolve some deps. So there hasn't be a question of what database someone have to use. Okay, the mainproblem here is not all packages have interface for every database, but it could solve these questions Greetings,

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 01:54:41PM -0400, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: Meh. +1 to kill MySQL for MariaDB. It's got a much better future. I see it more like a libc changeover. Who cares, it's got the same interface. We only have things to gain (better upstream, upstream commited to real f/oss, new

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/07/2013 01:31 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: I'd also like to get MySQL back in sync with Ubuntu to reduce waste between the two distros. It seems there's more and more a trend of seeing these differences increasing. :( Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Clint Byrum
On 2013-05-06 12:32, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/07/2013 01:31 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: I'd also like to get MySQL back in sync with Ubuntu to reduce waste between the two distros. It seems there's more and more a trend of seeing these differences increasing. :( This is yet another dig at

Re: Will we see MariaDB in Jessie?

2013-05-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 03:32:13AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 05/07/2013 01:31 AM, Clint Byrum wrote: I'd also like to get MySQL back in sync with Ubuntu to reduce waste between the two distros. It seems there's more and more a trend of seeing these differences increasing. :( The