> * Summary of options and selection status > > My original request for a decision proposed one of the following > options, which I think we all agree are the only options available: > > 1) We carry and ship both, which I believe is the preference of the > Debian MySQL Maintainers team by default since we do not agree to any > other option. We have representatives from both sides who are working > together and putting in the work to make this work technically. > > 2a) We carry both in unstable, but only MySQL in testing. > > 2b) We carry both in unstable, but only MariaDB in testing. > > 3a) We drop MariaDB completely, keeping only MySQL in unstable and > testing. > > 3b) We drop MySQL completely, keeping only MariaDB in unstable and > testing.
Another possible alternative (no idea how feasible it is, however) is 1) + having mariadb as a default provider for mysql-server.