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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by jrq on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:06PM (#16926719)
I don't think this is entirely debian maintainers fault. Package names aren't functions, so the string doesn't necessarily map to the thing you want. Left-pad is the modern analog to what I mean here.

Mariadb probably put in for the package name, tbh I can't be bothered to go find out, but I'd bet anything debian team didn't just arbitrarily make that call for users and ship it. 100% guarantee that.

I know your feeling though, that's the sort of thing that should be printing a warning or something when it happens.

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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:10PM (#16926752)
Upon later research, I am not sure of the value of your guarantee: https://www.debian.org/News/2017/20170617

In "Stretch", the default MySQL variant is now MariaDB. The replacement of packages for MySQL 5.5 or 5.6 by the MariaDB 10.1 variant will happen automatically upon upgrade.

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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by jrq on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @09:02PM (#16927965)
So then it wasn't unannounced...

Seems to me this is a non issue then.

I guess not everybody reads those, and I've already conceded that its something that ought to warrant a warning prompt or something.

But they didn't just change it for no reason.

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Re:One Giant Leap for SQL: MySQL 8.0 Released by kasabali on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @09:13PM (#16928015)
Warning prompt is right at the command line tool:

  $ mysql
  Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
  Your MariaDB connection id is 32
  Server version: 10.1.26-MariaDB-0+deb9u1 Debian 9.1

  Copyright (c) 2000, 2017, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

  $ mysql --version
  mysql  Ver 15.1 Distrib 10.1.26-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 5.2
It is pretty clear to anybody ever run the tool that it is MariaDB.
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