[debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

[ Fixing the team at security.d.o Cc ]

On 26/09/14 11:31, James Page wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
> 
>  On 26/08/14 00:46, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
>> Currently Jessie has version 5.5, and we would anticipate you
>> shipping 5.6. Only experimental has seen an upload of 5.6. What's
>> your plan here?
> 
>> Given the situation with upstream's approach to security releases,
>> the security team are also in CC in case they have an opinion.
> 
>> We'd ideally like a situation where we only ship one fork of the
>> codebase, so let's get your plans and take it from there.
> 
> As I emailed before, the plan was to get mysql-5.6 into unstable prior
> to freeze; however we hit a snag that needed investigation upstream
> which has delayed things a bit; specifically an ABI enum change -
> Norvald from Oracle has done some in-depth investigate into this problem:
> 
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2014-September/007040.html
> 
> The break is a minor one and only impacts three in-archive packages
> that would need a no-change rebuild post upload of mysql-5.6; so that
> we don't end up with a crazy Debian specific version of
> libmysqlclient, the recommendation is that we don't undertake a full
> transition but deal with the three exceptions as a one off, and
> resolve the soname version bump with mysql-5.7 in the future.  I'm not
> 100% comfortable with this but it appears to be the best compromise we
> can come up with.
> 
> If the release team is OK with this, we'll go ahead and upload
> mysql-5.6 to unstable and raise bugs for the three impacted packages.
> Please can you confirm.

I think it's rather late for such an upload, especially when it involves an ABI
break. I asked other RT members and the answer I got also was that it was too
late for this.

So I'd say we stay at 5.5 for Jessie.

> Robie and I are also working with Percona on PXC 5.6 (and PS 5.6);
> that might not land in time so percona-xtradb-cluster-5.5 might have
> to skip this release as I want to have a base compatibility of 5.6 for
> this Debian release.

I'm not sure what you mean here.

Also, I haven't seen an answer as to which MySQL fork we want for Jessie. We
can't have all 3 (or 4?) of them.

Regards,
Emilio