[debian-mysql] Backporting MySQL?

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Dominic Hargreaves's message of 2016-06-24 16:50:58 +0100:
> 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?

Hrm, I guess I was thinking we wouldn't want users to update their
libmysqlclient18 from a new major version. But in re-reading the
backports rules page [1] I see that I am just projecting Ubuntu
Backports rules onto Debian backports.

Perhaps somebody else more experienced with Debian backports can confirm
that it would be ok to include a newer libmysqlclient18.