[debian-mysql] Support for MySQL packages in Debian

[Akhil Mohan]

Hi,

I am Akhil Mohan from MySQL Release Engineering team at Oracle.

As the discussion is going on for MySQL support I assume this is the 
right time to introduce Oracle's interest in supporting debian-mysql 
maintainers, in every possible way to keep delivering latest release of 
MySQL. I am interested in helping the maintainers on behalf of MySQL 
Release Engineering team using my newly acquired understanding of Debian 
packaging.

As I am not a seasoned packager for Debian, I would be more comfortable 
doing small and specific tasks upfront, but I am absolutely open to 
perform any task that seems fit to maintainers for me.

Akhil

On Wednesday 21 August 2013 01:18 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Clint Byrum:
>
>> You can pry MySQL from the cold dead hands of all the reverse deps. ;)
> Hah.
>
>> But seriously, there are enough differences, this is not a switch,
>> it is an enablement.
> On the other hand, MySQL 5.9 will probably be more different from
> current MySQL than MariaDB today.
>
>> Indeed, the currently active maintainers of MySQL count about one. My
>> work in Debian is lower priority than wife, children, day job, and my
>> own personal health (read: sleep). This means that about once a week
>> I get a chance to look at the state of MySQL in Debian and spend maybe
>> an hour on it. That usually entails pushing the latest update (working
>> on 5.5.33 right now) into unstable and, if it has high priority security
>> fixes, stable-security. Oldstable doesn't even get a look usually.
> Oracle folks were quite eager to maintain MySQL as part of Fedora.
> Perhaps it would make sense to invite them to contribute to Debian as
> well?
>
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