MySQL and MariaDB in Fedora

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Il 15/04/2013 08:19, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" ha scritto:
> On 04/14/2013 07:10 PM, Matthias Runge wrote:
>> On 04/14/2013 06:54 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>>> Convincing this is about doing the right thing!
>>>
>>> I your intention was to ban mysql in the distribution then it should
>>> have been banned and dropped instead of this mess that you guys have
>>> created.
>> IMHO you cannot ban/deprecate a package from the distro, if there's
>> still a packager/contributor to the package. Also you can not force
>> somebody to drop a package.
>>
>
> I'm aware of that but we can force migration upon users on upgrades 
> while we still provide and ship that component?
>
> If users have *chosen* to install component A and we *still* provide ( 
> maintain,package and ship )  component A, the users should be upgraded 
> to that components latest release upon upgrade.
>
> If users have *chosen* to install component A and we *no longer* 
> provide  ( maintain,package and ship )  component A then the argument 
> can be made that we should "migrate" component A to component B during 
> release upgrades if it provides same or similar functionality ( even 
> thou I feel it's bad policy doing so and we would be better of doing 
> nothing as in simply not upgrade or migrate that component unless it 
> becomes absolutely necessary )
>
> JBG
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