[debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie

[Matt Griffin]

Just wanted to chime in that Percona stands behind our software and will
maintain it for the life of Jessie.

Best,
Matt Griffin
Director of Product Management
Percona


On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 12:00 PM, James Page <james.page at ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On 01/10/14 16:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >>> 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.
>
> OK; upstream support lifetimes are OK for this so should be ok.
>
> >>> 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.
>
> we really have two 'forks' right now:
>
>         mysql-5.5 (default mysql - provides libmysqlclient-dev which the
> rest
> of the archive builds against)
>         mariadb-5.5
>
> and one derivative:
>
>         percona-xtradb-cluster-5.5
>
> which is percona-server-5.5 (not in Debian) built with galera
> replication extensions - its mysql compatible but quite distinct
> product from mysql-5.5 or mariadb-5.5.
>
> I would maintain that mysql-5.5 has to stay in release this late in
> cycle, switching to mariadb-5.5 would mean a full transition, and that
> percona-xtradb-cluster-5.5 is a sufficiently distinct product to
> remain in for release as well.
>
> So that really just leaves mariadb-5.5 (or mariadb-10 - I know Otto
> has been busy working on this) up for debate;  my take is still that
> if there is sufficient resource maintaining mariadb-5.5 (which I think
> there is - thanks to Otto), or any other fork, that it should still be
> considered for release.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers
>
> James
>
> - --
> James Page
> Ubuntu and Debian Developer
> james.page at ubuntu.com
> jamespage at debian.org
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