On 01/01/17 12:49, Dominik George wrote: > Hi, > >> You should have kept me in Cc if you wanted me to see your reply and have a >> chance to reply. > > sorry, I just cannot remember that the Debian BTS does not automatically > notify the submitter ☹. > > So, I have several problems: > > * I cannot find the formal transition for this. > * I cannot see that mysql-server will be removed from stretch. > > As a matter of sad fact, testing.mysqld does not work with mariadb right > now. > > What is wrong with depending on mysql-server, given that mysql-server > will still exist although mariadb will become the default?
We're aiming at dropping mysql from testing/stretch because of concerns from the security team. See email threads in debian-release@ and pkg-mysql-maint@. Cheers, Emilio
