[debian-mysql] Patches for MySQL 5.6 packaging

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Stewart Smith's message of 2013-10-28 21:16:52 -0700:
> Clint Byrum <spamaps at debian.org> writes:
> > Nicholas Bamber was also looking at changing the source package name
> > to just 'mysql' so that we don't have to pass the NEW queue every time
> > MySQL releases a new GA. So I think that should be done in your packages
> > as well, since we'd have to pass NEW to get a mysql-5.6 in anyway.
> 
> Would this block us having several MySQL major releases available at
> once?
> 
> For Percona Server, this is likely to be something we desire.

As long as you desire to support all of those versions in
stable/oldstable.. game on. :)

I personally do not have the resources to commit to the possibility of
supporting 5.5 and 5.6 together at once in a stable release.