[debian-mysql] plans for mysql-5.6.git (was: Re: About packages that depend on mysql-* / mariadb / virtual-mysql-*)

[Andreas Beckmann]

Hi,

On 2016-07-09 00:57, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> 2016-07-06 13:56 GMT+03:00 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>:
>> I see that the new unified repository is on alioth for mysql-5.7 and
>> mysql-defaults. I've now updated my repo at
>> git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/users/anbe/tmp/mysql.git
>> with a proposed integration of mysql-5.6, too.
>> There are also branches for dropping the mysql-common package from both
>> mysql-5.6 and mysql-5.7 once mysql-defaults is uploaded.
> 
> You have upload permissions to our team packages at
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mysql/
> If you keep changes in your private branches, then others might not
> notice them and continue developing further diverging branches.
> 
> So please push your changes to git.debian.org, or if you hesitate to
> do so because you are unsure of something, then please ask explicitly
> for a review.

What are your plans for mysql-5.6? Do you want to switch to the unified
git repository? How long will 5.6 stay around anyway? I'd expect the
transition to mysql-5.7 to happen soon after 5.7 entered Debian and 5.6
being removed afterwards.
Are there any Ubuntu releases containing mysql-5.6? How long would they
be supported?

Otto, do you plan to change the mariadb-x.y.git layout, too? DEP14 might
be helpful there as well. At least for now (i.e. only 10.0 supported
anywhere), you could go without the source-package branch-level that is
in mysql.git (or are there still plans to merge mariadb into the unified
repository at some point?)

I think the archive/mysql-defaults.git repository could be removed, it
serves no real purpose and does not contain any history that one might
want to preserve.

Andreas