[debian-mysql] Backporting MySQL?

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Dominic Hargreaves's message of 2016-06-24 15:27:17 +0100:
> Hi,
> 
> We have a requirement to use MySQL 5.6 on our jessie system, and 
> happily the local backport was trivial (no source changes were required)
> and works fine in our testing. It'd be great to have this available in
> the official backports repo so that others can benefit too.
> 
> Would people be happy for me to upload a backport of 5.6.30-1
> (as of now) to jessie-backports, or would the MySQL maintainers prefer
> to be involved directly?

Can I assume you removed libmysqlclient/client programs/etc. from the
build?

Perhaps you could post a link to the source tree or dsc's so we can diff
for ourselves.