[debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Norvald Ryeng's message of 2014-10-01 11:37:58 -0700:
> ----- 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.
> 

Are you suggesting that mysql_upgrade in 5.7 cannot upgrade from 5.5
directly?

That would be most unfortunate. I still don't think we can ship 5.6 in
jessie if there are ABI issues.