Proposal to make MariaDB the default MySQL variant in Ubuntu 25.04

[Mohamed Wadie NSIRI]

Hello all,

I am the product manager of relational databases at Canonical.
I want to highlight that our aim is to continue supporting whatever 
databases our Ubuntu users are using.
According to various surveys and popularity indexes, both MySQL and 
MariaDB continue to be very popular among IT professionals:
[1] 
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#most-popular-technologies-database
[2] https://db-engines.com/en/ranking

As far as the above is true and that no change is made to prevent us - 
Canonical - from shipping those packages in Ubuntu, we will continue to 
do so.

Best regards,
Mohamed Wadie NSIRI