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

On 2026-05-30 Paul Gevers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/29/26 09:00, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> >   While upstream supports MySQL, this package only supports MariaDB since
> >   MySQL is not packaged by Debian.


> Thinking of our downstreams, I don't think it great to mention "not packaged
> by Debian" in the description. It's not even true, it's packaged in
> unstable.

Hello,

I am not sure about the actual status of mysl packaging in Debian. sid
has 8.0.46, but afaiui 8.0 has reached EOL about a month ago. Shouldn't
it be removed from sid or be upgraded to one of the supported LTS
releases (8.4 like in Ubuntu or 9.7)?

cu Andreas