[debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie

[Norvald Ryeng]

----- james.page at ubuntu.com wrote:

> 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.

There's one more issue. MySQL 5.6 is already almost 2 years old. 5.7 is probably released before jessie+1, but the recommended upgrade path is 5.5 -> 5.6 -> 5.7, so there should be one release with 5.6 first in order to provide an upgrade path.

Regards,

Norvald H. Ryeng