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[William Edwards <wedwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I recently discovered a bug in my MariaDB deployment process. I have two 
Ansible tasks that respectively add the downloads.mariadb.org Debian 
repo, and install mariadb-server-10.*. I forgot to add 'update_cache: 
yes' to the repo add task, so incidentally mariadb-server-10.* was 
actually installed from the Debian repo. I have seen the following 
differences between the mariadb-server-10.* packages:

- Packages from Debian repo only come with the 'root@localhost' user. 
Packages from MariaDB repo come with the users 'root@localhost', 
'root@::1' and 'root@127.0.0.1'.
- Packages from Debian repo don't come with 'debian-sys-maint@localhost' 
user. Instead, the 'root' user is used in /etc/mysql/debian.cnf
- Packages from Debian repo use DebianAlternatives for my.cnf. Packages 
from MariaDB repo also come with a more advanced my.cnf, e.g. 
'bind-address = 127.0.0.1' is set - not being able to remotely connect 
is how I discovered this bug on my side.
- Packages from MariaDB repo come with package configuration 
(specifically: setting root password).

Q: I'm wondering if anyone has a more complete list of differences 
between these packages (the above is just what I've observed from fixing 
issues due to this bug).

I don't know if the Debian maintainers for this package branch off a 
package by MariaDB, so I posted this here, but please let me know if I 
would be better off posting this on a Debian mailing list.

TIA.

With kind regards,

William Edwards