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

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2015-07-25 05:28:15 -0700:
>  ❦ 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.

Agreed, this is one of those "why don't they just do that?" situations.
I tried to package HandlerSocket and have given up for similar reasons.