Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
If the current maintainers orphan mysql anyone can pick it up
including
Oracle employees and continue it's maintenance within the distribution.
Any beef, competition or what not between Red Hat and Oracle ( or anyone
else for that matter ) is between Red Hat and Oracle not Fedora and I
cant imagine FESCO/Board standing in the way of Oracle wanting to
packaging and maintain anything in the distribution unless it breaks
some legal jargon just like everyone else.
But the fact that the packages conflict should stand in the way.
I don't see how having 2 packages which are drop-in replacements of each
other and ship conflicting files (requiring the packages to Conflict with
each other at RPM level) is helpful in any way. We already have too many
Conflicts in the repository.
Kevin Kofler