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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by liveoneggs on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:29PM (#16924519)
I agree. The MySQL -> MariaDB stuff is bonkers. I would like to read the discussion of it on the lists but can't be bothered to look for it.
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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by RealSpamapS on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:54PM (#16927117)
It was a multi-year effort including us asking specifically for the policy to be spelled out at why there could be only one. IMO the Debian security team wrote a policy specifically to target Oracle in this specific instance, as a result. Digging it out is painful, as it all happened back in 2016, but you can start here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=793316

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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by liveoneggs on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:23PM (#16928551)
I also hold the opinion that MariaDB's failure to simply rename key "mysql" files/dirs to "mariadb" was intentionally confusing and an effort to steal market share.

Percona has been a much better citizen with its fork.

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