On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 08:12:29PM +0100, Joe wrote: > OK, it looks like I'm wrong, and the Debian packaging of mariadb is > *not* a drop-in replacement for mysql, at least from a clean > installation. > > I was sort of under the impression that Debian had changed horses to > mariadb, and managed it with metafiles and transition packages, but it > appears that both my wheezy server and my sid workstation are still on > mysql. I'm using mariadb, but apparently only on my Win8 laptop.
I don't use MySQL or MariaDB myself, but a MySQL -> MariaDB transition is listed as one of the stretch release goals, and "done", here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/04/msg00008.html
