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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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Besides having the latest version available, what do Debian users who run MariaDB wish to see in future versions of MariaDB, or how it is integrated and packaged in Debian?

I am the maintainer in Debian - looking for feedback and ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Not sure if I am doing something wrong but I always have to mess about to make a default user when installing. Be nice to setup a user during the package install.

And thank you!

[–] otto 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What do you mean a default user? You can just run 'mariadb' to access to console with the same user that had permissions to run 'apt install'.

For your actual application you need to plan what database name to use, what user, what permissions it needs, potentially remote connection and TLS etc. This indeed is some work and could perhaps be automated a bit, but it also needs sysadmin to make some decisions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

That is why i said I may be doing something wrong. When installing i normally pull mariadb as a dependency and that is prob where my issue is coming.. this is prob more an issue with the other package and me not setting up the database and user for it before hand.

I will try to install mariadb and configure everything before hand and not pull mariadb as a dependency of my other package.