Re: Proposing the retirement of default-mysql-* metapackages for Forky

Hi Otto!

> I want to start a discussion about dismantling the 
> default-mysql-server and default-mysql-client virtual packages for 
> Forky (Debian 14), and transitioning the archive to point explicitly 
> to mariadb-server and mariadb-client.

+1. I find it weird that people keep saying "MySQL" when in fact they 
mean MariaDB. And the differences between the two, as you say, are 
getting bigger and bigger.

> Despite pledges from the community, Oracle hasn't shown any signs of 
> being a better open source steward, the commit activity is decreasing 
> [4], and no new commits have been published for the main branch in the 
> past 5 months.
>
> [4] https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/graphs/commit-activity

I took at brief look, and it seems that MySQL's GitHub repo is more of 
a "let's dump stuff here every once in a while" than the actual place 
where development happens. For instance, the latest 9.7.0 LTS release is 
still in the 9.7 Git branch. So, I don't know that the default "trunk" 
branch represents, but for sure it's not an indicator of development 
activity.

That said, +1 for retiring default-mysql-*.

Bye!