Hi Clint, On 2 Oct 2014, at 03:01, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> wrote: > Excerpts from Colin Charles's message of 2014-10-01 11:57:41 -0700: >> Hi! >> >> On 2 Oct 2014, at 00:48, Clint Byrum <spamaps@debian.org> wrote: >> >>> My personal feeling is that we should include the ones that have a >>> company ready to stake their reputation on it by committing publicly to >>> maintaining it for the life of Jessie. Oracle? Percona? MariaDB? Want >>> your fork in Debian? Let us know! >> >> As I have a vested interest in this, I'm shying away from discussion. But MariaDB will support MariaDB 5.5 for the lifetime of Jessie. We have made a similar commitment to Red Hat & SUSE for their enterprise releases as well. > > In order for our friends on the security team to feel good about going > forward with multiple forks, this needs to be specific. Not "support > MariaDB", but "maintain the MariaDB packages in Jessie." This is a public commitment to fully support and maintain the MariaDB 5.5 packages in Jessie. -- Colin Charles, http://bytebot.net/blog/ twitter: @bytebot | skype: colincharles "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi
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