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

[Robie Basak]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:52:00PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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.

I intend for us to switch to the unified git repository for historical
purposes for both 5.5 and 5.6, but I don't see this as a priority right
now (and we'd need to take care of tags and other branches, so it needs
more care than the mysql-5.7 and mysql-defualts moves). Importantly we
should not have it in two places, as that would get confusing. So I
think it's fine to leave it as it is for now, until one of us gets round
to moving them.

I'm waiting on someone to upload mysql-5.7 to experimental, since I'm
not a DD. I know Otto is having some build trouble locally, possibly due
to build time memory requirements (Launchpad and my local machine
succeed reliably with sbuild).

Otto, are you still trying, or should I find another DD to take over?

Once everything is in experimental, I think we can test MySQL,
mysql-defaults and MariaDB in experimental and upload all to unstable
relatively quickly. Then I can stop caring for mysql-5.6 in Debian (in
testing, and I see that it's not in stable).

> Are there any Ubuntu releases containing mysql-5.6? How long would they
> be supported?

mysql-5.6 is in 14.04 in universe, so technically that's supported until
2019. mysql-5.5 is in 14.04 in main, so that's supported until 2019.

> 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.

No objection.

Robie