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

Yavor Doganov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
В Fri, 29 May 2026 07:36:51 +0200, Paul Gevers написа:
> On 5/29/26 05:19, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>> ... added separate autopkgtests to test its MySQL backend with both
>> MariaDB and MySQL.
> 
> Debian doesn't ship MySQL in testing, so please don't test against MySQL
> in the default setup.

Oh, thanks (I should have checked that myself).  I'll remove it with
the next upload, as soon as the current version migrates to testing.

This means that packages that fall in the third group from Otto's MBF
template (those that explicitly require MySQL) cannot be in testing
and thus cannot end up in a stable release...
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