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

Lena Voytek <[email protected]> Sat, 30 May 2026 12:19:51 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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Hi,

On Sat, 2026-05-30 at 10:35 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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)?

I currently maintain the mysql-8.0 package in unstable, and agree it should be replaced by 9.7
there. I am happy to handle the upgrade there alongside the transition to 9.7 in Ubuntu over the
next few months. The new source package would just need to make it through the new queue, knowing
that it will likely not be in forky due to security fixes from upstream only being provided through
full version updates. 

Thanks,
Lena

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