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

Hi,

On Thu May 28, 2026 at 4:59 AM CEST, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> I also suggest you check out 
> https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/graphs/contributors?from=5%2F25%2F2024 
> to see how development activity is slowing down and note that out of 
> the top-6 developers only two still seem to be employed by Oracle. 

While it is true that mysql is basically an Oracle-only project at this 
point, I have already pointed out[1] that the linked GitHub graph is 
misleading as it only shows commits to the default branch, while 
development apparently happens in other branches (like "9.7"[2]).

Bye!

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
[2]: https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server/compare/trunk...9.7