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title: "MariaDB now in Debian"
publish_date: 2014-01-13
author: "MariaDB"
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# MariaDB now in Debian

An update on Linux distribution adoption of MariaDB, originally published by Colin Charles on 27.12.2013 at [bytebot.net](http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2013/12/27/mariadb-distributions-update-dec-2013). A few things to note recently, amongst MariaDB in distributions.

1. [Ubuntu keeps MySQL 5.5 despite MariaDB’s success](http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-14-04-LTS-Will-Keep-MySQL-5-5-Despite-MariaDB-Success-403050.shtml). There’s a lot of reasons for this, but remember the key takeaway here is MySQL 5.5 & the fact that MariaDB wasn’t even in Debian yet when the decision was made.
2. MariaDB is now inside of Debian/sid – check out the [packages](http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mariadb).
3. [RHEL 7 comes with MariaDB 5.5 as a default](https://mariadb.com/blog/RHEL%207%20comes%20with%20MariaDB%205.5%20as%20a%20default); this is a good thing.

Now, from a distribution standpoint, we’re looking at starting to ship 10.0 as well. Distro maintainers don’t want one-way streets (i.e. an upgrade to MariaDB prevents you from going back to MySQL). This is something we have to deal with as more start looking at MySQL 5.6 & MariaDB 10 (think [temporal literals](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/temporal-literals/) as an example).