[debian-mysql] Bug#793316: Bug#793316: transition: mysql-5.6

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 23 juillet 2015 07:17 -0700, Clint Byrum <spamaps at debian.org> :

> I'd be interested to hear the security team's impressions on how shipping
> micro releases of MySQL has gone for them. They've been doing most if not
> all of the work, and I haven't seen bug reports flying in about those
> updates, so I suspect our primary gripe about MySQL may actually be no
> big deal. Sure they have a _ridiculous_ policy about not telling us what
> the actual security problems were. But they also have quite impressive
> policies on not breaking things in micro releases.

One minor gripe about that: MySQL doesn't provide a stable ABI across
those micro releases for external engines. So, any external engine has
to be recompiled. I have the problem with pinba-engine-mysql and didn't
want to make the way to stable with the problem unaddressed. I've asked
the release team for guidance [1] but didn't get an answer.

I understand that there are more serious matters to address.

[1]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/01/msg00233.html
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