Excerpts from Emilio Pozuelo Monfort's message of 2015-07-23 01:59:15 -0700: > On 22/07/15 21:24, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Package: release.debian.org > > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > > Usertags: transition > > Severity: normal > > X-Debbugs-Cc: pkg-mysql-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > Control: block -1 with 793314 793315 > > > > On behalf of the MySQL maintainers I'm filing this transition bug. > > Please keep the list Cc:ed on replies. > > > > The core packages involved here are mysql-5.5, mysql-5.6, mariadb-10.0. > > In order for mysql-5.6 to enter testing mysql-5.5 has to leave and > > mariadb-10.0 has to migrate at the same time. > > Didn't we agree that we would release Stretch with only mariadb? When do you > plan to start working on that so we can drop mysql-* from testing?
Please do read up on the differences. MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 10.0 are already a little bit incompatible, but 5.7 will introduce some features that MariaDB will likely be chasing for some time. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysql-nutshell.html Thus far I think the main feature of MariaDB is "it's not made by Oracle". However, frankly, Oracle have been helping maintain MySQL more than MontyProgram/SkySQL (easy to be above 0) and have demonstrated that they are in fact very interested in doing what is needed to keep MySQL in Debian. Otto K., a MariaDB community member, has done an amazing job at improving MariaDB and keeping it in some ways ahead of the MySQL packaging, so I think the two databases are neck and neck at this point. I'd be interested to hear the security team's impressions on how shipping micro releases of MySQL has gone for them. They've been doing most if not all of the work, and I haven't seen bug reports flying in about those updates, so I suspect our primary gripe about MySQL may actually be no big deal. Sure they have a _ridiculous_ policy about not telling us what the actual security problems were. But they also have quite impressive policies on not breaking things in micro releases. So, shipping two, or three, is a drain on resources, but there seem to be enough developers to commit to maintaining both. Perhaps we should just keep shipping both. Also sorry Percona, I've lost track of you, your Galera work is vital to OpenStack, so I hope you'll keep maintaining things as well. In the past you were right there with Oracle supporting your fork. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
