See new wiki page at https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/wikis/MariaDB-in-Debian


Since 2013 there has been a schema in place so that packages can define that they can be satisfied with any MySQL variant using virtual-mysql-* dependencies.

Since 2016 June a new schema has been introduced, where packages can be defined that they depend on exactly one MySQL variant that the release team has decided is default. These default-mysql-* metapackages are provided by the mysql-defaults package.

For details, see https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/09/msg00000.html


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