[debian-mysql] MySQL 5.7 Packaging

[Robie Basak]

OK, 5.7 packaging is ready now, and pushed to the 5.7 repository. A
couple of major changes to what was there before:

1) It has 5.6 in its history, so figuring out the past is much easier.

2) There are a series of logical and small commits that can be
individually reviewed to get from 5.6 to 5.7. This way when reviewing I
can be sure that we have not regressed anything.

I cannot replace the master branch, so I pushed to a branch called
"rbasak" and also copied the current master branch from Bjoern to one
called "jesusch" (his username). Can a DD please delete the current
master branch and rename "rbasak" to "master"?

I found the lack of history to be a big pain during 5.6. As none of us
were around many years ago, we need to be able to ask git questions like
"when was line X added and with what changelog message". Not preserving
this history in git makes life much harder so I think it's worth doing
this properly from the start.

I also ask (again) that people only push to the master branch high
quality commits of this form: one logical change per commit, with a
sensible commit message explaining the change.

With that, I think my branch is ready for upload to Debian experimental,
and I'd appreciate any review. One thing that still needs to be done is
translation updates. We have various updates in the BTS and also need to
unfuzz the latest s/5.6/5.7/ changes.

Bjoern, is there anything that you want to add to this branch? I looked
through your previous commits, but as they weren't broken down I
couldn't really see what changes I could pick out.

I have also uploaded this work to Ubuntu. A couple of Ubuntu-specific
changes were needed that are not applicable to Debian. You can track
this in the ubuntu/devel branch that I have pushed.

Robie
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