Hi Otto, > Following a recent discussion on debian-devel@[1], there is a plan to > dismantle > the default-mysql-* virtual package construct provided by the mysql-defaults > source package. With the recent releases of MySQL 9.7 and MariaDB 12.3, there > is > now enough divergence between the two codebases to warrant dismantling this > metapackage in the Forky (Debian 14) cycle.
do you have a suggestion on what to do with the "Recommends: virtual-mysql-server" (c.f. bug #732879)? Should it still be in use or should we have dropped references to those when we switched to default-mysql-* in 2016? Regards, Carsten
