[debian-mysql] MySQL in Jessie

[James Page]

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On 26/08/14 00:46, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> We (the release team) would like to find out your plans for MySQL
> in Jessie.
> 
> 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.

The plan we have discussed is to baseline on 5.6 as the baseline for
compatibility; Robie Basak has been working on the mysql-5.5 -> 5.6
upgrade and I should be in a position to review and sponsor that in
the next couple of weeks.

In terms of forks/variants, Percona have been working on Percona
Server and Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6 packaging which I have been
reviewing; I believe that these are in a state where they are ready
for upload - again I'll be looking at these in the next few weeks.

In terms of ongoing (security) support for Percona and MariaDB, this
is also a concern that I have; My take is that there needs to be a
clear maintainer from within the pkg-mysql team for each variant,
otherwise general and security updates will not be sustainable.

As Otto has already stated, he has MariaDB pretty much in hand.  He's
also doing a great job on security updates for Ubuntu 14.04 (nice work
Otto).

For Percona, George Lorch has taken ownership of the percona-*
packages and has put in alot of process and automation around package
production.

So long as these maintenance commitments continue, I don't think we
should be blocking variants from release.

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James Page
Ubuntu and Debian Developer
james.page at ubuntu.com
jamespage at debian.org
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