On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 03:18:17PM +0100, Norvald H. Ryeng wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:16:32 +0100 > Dominik George <n...@naturalnet.de> wrote: > > Their claim that mariadb can > > simply be used as a drop-in replacement does not hold true...
> The MySQL maintainers have never claimed that MariaDB is a drop-in > replacement for MySQL. We have argued that it isn't. Indeed. People seem to assume we claim this, but nobody in Debian has claimed it as far as I know. I believe that the release team's current position is that if a package cannot be made to work against MariaDB, it cannot be in stretch. IIRC, this came up with some packages a while ago (mysql-connector-c++? mysql-workbench? I forget which) and that was the conclusion. Robie
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