[debian-mysql] Backporting MySQL?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 07:35:47AM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> 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.

No, as per the above I didn't make any source changes. I can only asssume
that you think they should be removed for some reason; could you say why?

Cheers,
Dominic.