Presentation given at the MariaDB Developers Meetup 2016 in Amsterdam.

1. MariaDB in Debian and Ubuntu:
The next million users

2. ~60 % of web servers run
Ubuntu or Debian
300 million serves that could run
'apt-get install mariadb-server' ?
Debian and the hundreds of
derivates, Ubuntu among others

3. MariaDB and MySQL packages in Debian
https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-mysql-maint%40lists.alioth.debian.org

4. New: mysql-default-*

5. Debian popcon: mariadb-server

6. Debian popcon: mysql-server

7. MySQL not in next Debian at all?
Debian security team member (2016-09-13):
”...whole discussion was about picking one
version for stretch and that turned out to be
mariadb-10.0.”

8. Builds for official and unofficial Debian platforms
MariaDB 10.0 MySQL 5.6
Both build on most platforms, but MariaDB fail due to testsuite not passing

9. bugs.debian.org
130+ bugs in
Debian for
mysql-5.6
(entered
Debian in
summer
2015)
Ubuntu 61
12 bugs in
Debian for
mariadb-10.0
Ubuntu 32

10. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb-10.0

11. What about 10.2?
1.Upstream the 10.0 packaging from official
Debian into MariaDB master branch (10.2)
2.Submit 10.2 (pre-GA) to Debian experimental
3.Hope 10.2 is published GA early December
4.Submit 10.2 GA to Debian sid and hope we
have time to get it into Debian 9 :)