[debian-mysql] Backporting MySQL?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 06:16:48PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 09:02:46AM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't see why it wouldn't. There are many shared libraries already
> in the backports. Of course it would be different if the ABI changed,
> but that's not the case here.

It appears that there is more interest in providing a backport of
MySQL 5.6[1]. I intend to upload the packages I built last week
to backports tomorrow; but I am more than happy for the MySQL
maintainers to get involved in the backporting effort if they would
prefer.

Of course, it will be for the backports FTP masters to rule on the
above question as part of NEW processing.

Thanks,
Dominic.

[1] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2016/06/msg00120.html>