[debian-mysql] mysql-5.1 or both mysql-5.5/1

[Nicholas Bamber]

Okay well I took the plunge and uploaded. I think if I investigate a 
certain three more bugs I might feel able to handle the upgrade.

On 27/04/12 23:02, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> Clint,
> Shall I look at uploading the current repository to experimental or
> unstable? We could kick the process off that way.
>
>
> On 27/04/12 22:26, Clint Byrum wrote:
>> Excerpts from Olaf van der Spek's message of Fri Apr 27 12:47:52 -0700
>> 2012:
>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Nicholas Bamber
>>> <nicholas at periapt.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> On 26/04/12 08:38, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> To make your life easier Nicholas couldnt you pull the 5.5 packages
>>>>> from
>>>>> ubuntu and start transitioning using those packages?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jonathan,
>>>> I am working on modernizing debian/rules and generally understanding
>>>> the package and triaging etc. People who know Ubuntu better than I
>>>> do are
>>>> better placed to merge in those changes.
>>>
>>> Hi Nicholas,
>>>
>>> If the current rules work for Ubuntu, why can't they work for Debian?
>>>
>>> IMO 5.5 should be made available in unstable ASAP so more people can
>>> test it.
>>> Releasing without 5.5 would be a shame.
>>>
>>
>> I actually agree. I didn't realize the freeze for wheezy was looming
>> so soon
>> (I've heard it described as "weeks" away).
>>
>> We can import the Ubuntu package pretty much as-is with the one
>> exception of
>> the upstart job (which we can move out of the way easily) and get
>> 5.5.23 into
>> unstable relatively quickly.
>>
>> Two paths exist:
>>
>> * Keeping 5.1 - I am strongly against this. I believe that we are
>> already stretched quite thin on this team, and maintaining *two*
>> versions of MySQL in a release will just increase our burden even
>> further. If we want to do it, the Ubuntu packages will cause problems
>> because they build libmysqlclient-dev, mysql-client, mysql-server,
>> mysql-testsuite, etc.
>>
>> * Dropping 5.1 - If we drop 5.1, which is my preference, we should
>> upload 5.5 to unstable *ASAP*. We should then start a systematic
>> rebuild transition to pick up libmysqlclient18. The Ubuntu packages
>> would work perfectly for this, sans upstart job. Then we can simply
>> remove MySQL 5.1 and any packages that can't be rebuilt against 5.5.
>> The Ubuntu packages handle the breaks/replaces properly as well.
>>
>> I'll have time to work on MySQL in Debian next week. Have we heard back
>> from the release team yet on whether we can start this transition?
>>
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