[debian-mysql] Bug#684146: xz compression and mysql-5.5

[Ansgar Burchardt]

On 08/08/2012 10:43 PM, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> 	I have not finished testing your patch but I have a few questions.
> 
> 	Firstly it raises a new lintian error requiring a Pre-Depends on dpkg
> (=> 1.15.6~). I know that this is more of an issue for Ubuntu and that
> Ubuntu won't in this case be syncing from wheezy, so I guess we can live
> with the warning. But to be careful I thought I had better run it past
> you. I certainly would want to follow lintian's advice post-wheezy.

The Pre-Depends should be safe to include, but it was mostly included
for Ubuntu as they support upgrading from a release with an older dpkg.

> 	Also you say " please keep in mind to not include additional changes."
> however I also have #683733  to fix which I think I should be in the
> same release.

Feel free to include additional changes for wheezy as long as you are
confident that the release team will approve them.  I included that
sentence to prevent people from including changes not intended for wheezy.

Ansgar