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[Clint Byrum <clint@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Excerpts from Otto Kekäläinen's message of 2015-04-25 23:57:50 -0700:
> Hello!
> 
> Debian 8 "Jessie" has been released to today. It is the first official
> Debian release that ships with MariaDB (it has MariaDB 10.0.16 and
> MySQL 5.5.42). MariaDB client for C (the LGPL version) is also
> included. Release notes[1] state that in Debian 9 only one MySQL
> variant will be shipped. Hopefully the decision will tip towards
> MariaDB.
> 

GREAT job Otto, This is really good news for Debian and for MariaDB.

I wanted to just make sure to clarify something from those release notes:

The actual quote from the release notes reads as such: "Only one of them
is likely to be included in Debian 9"

It may be a subtlety, but "will" is certain, and "likely" is not.

As I've stated many times, any variant that has enough support from
its community should ship. Oracle has done their part for MySQL, and
you have done yours for MariaDB. Percona has also stepped up for their
variants. When that line was written, it wasn't at all clear who would
contribute to help all the variants play well together.

> The MariaDB "request for packaging" issue[2] was opened in
> bugs.debian.org in 2010. I started doing MariaDB packaging for Debian
> in 2013. The path here has been long and I am glad that this milestone
> is finally reached.
> 

Your persistence is legendary Otto. Thanks so much!