[debian-mysql] status of MariaDB in Debian

[Florian Weimer]

* Clint Byrum:

> You can pry MySQL from the cold dead hands of all the reverse deps. ;)

Hah.

> But seriously, there are enough differences, this is not a switch,
> it is an enablement.

On the other hand, MySQL 5.9 will probably be more different from
current MySQL than MariaDB today.

> Indeed, the currently active maintainers of MySQL count about one. My
> work in Debian is lower priority than wife, children, day job, and my
> own personal health (read: sleep). This means that about once a week
> I get a chance to look at the state of MySQL in Debian and spend maybe
> an hour on it. That usually entails pushing the latest update (working
> on 5.5.33 right now) into unstable and, if it has high priority security
> fixes, stable-security. Oldstable doesn't even get a look usually.

Oracle folks were quite eager to maintain MySQL as part of Fedora.
Perhaps it would make sense to invite them to contribute to Debian as
well?