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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by astrodust on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:59PM (#16925439)
Fedora made the same decision, so I don't know if you can blame Debian per-se. This was a community wide problem.
Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by Conan_Kudo on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:02PM (#16928227)
Not exactly. Fedora maintains MySQL as "community-mysql"[1], and MariaDB uses the "mariadb"[2] package.

[1]: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/community-mysql [2]: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/mariadb

Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by astrodust on Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:48PM (#16937110)
`dnf install mysql` gives you MariaDB by default.