Hi!

The package in Debian has been using exclusively MariaDB in all
official Debian releases since Debian 9 "stretch" from 2017. Debian 8
"jessie" was the last official Debian release to ship with MySQL.

Should we consider renaming the package to dbconfig-mariadb in coming months?

- Otto

Hi Otto,

dbconfig-common is in the debian namespace. Go ahead and implement a
nice migration.

Paul

Thanks for expressing that you are inclined and not objecting such a
change. I will put time in making an MR and technical proposal with details.

The Debian NEW review of dbconfig-common 2.1.0~exp1 has been completed.

Decision: ACCEPTED
Reviewer: Mechtilde Stehmann

Review comment:

Hi,

please remove the AFL license text from this nativ package.

thanks

Full review details: https://dfsg-new-queue.debian.org/reviews/dbconfig-common

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dbconfig-common, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1079753@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org> (supplier of updated dbconfig-common package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:18:18 +0000
Source: dbconfig-common
Binary: dbconfig-common dbconfig-mariadb dbconfig-no-thanks dbconfig-pgsql dbconfig-sqlite3
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.1.0~exp1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Changed-By: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
Description:
 dbconfig-common - framework that helps packages to manage databases
 dbconfig-mariadb - dbconfig-common MariaDB/MySQL support
 dbconfig-no-thanks - dbconfig-common bypass
 dbconfig-pgsql - dbconfig-common PostgreSQL support
 dbconfig-sqlite3 - dbconfig-common SQLite3 support
Closes: 1079753
Changes:
 dbconfig-common (2.1.0~exp1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * Rename package dbconfig-mysql to dbconfig-mariadb (Closes: #1079753) and
     increment minor version to reflect this is a major change, and upload
     to experimental initially to further test if there are any unintended
     side-effects of this package rename
   * Update translations to have "MariaDB/MySQL" instead of just "MySQL"
   * Complete all translations that were fuzzy or incomplete
   * Set Language header in es, it, ml, and nb PO files
   * Apply consistent formatting to packaging files
   * Drop redundant `Priority: optional`
   * Drop redundant `Rules-Requires-Root: no`
   * Bump debhelper-compat from 12 to 13
   * Bump Debian Policy version to 4.7.4
   * Move dbconfig manpages to section 8 as binaries live in /usr/sbin
   * Update Lintian overrides to match latest Lintian syntax and package state
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Hi!
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dbconfig-common/-/merge_requests/16