[debian-mysql] Backporting MySQL?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:22:57AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Lars Tangvald wrote:
> > Hi, Dominic,
> > 
> > As noted in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841049 the
> > Oracle critical patch update for October will list CVE's that affect MySQL
> > 5.6 prior to 5.6.34.
> > 
> > We mention in the changelog at
> > https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.6/en/news-5-6-34.html that there
> > is an incompatible change, which will require some packaging changes. The
> > update changes the server to only allow import/export operations in
> > /var/lib/mysql-files (as the default setting), so the packaging will need to
> > create this directory.
> > 
> > We can provide a packaging patch for jessie-backports once the CVE list is
> > available, so you can upload, if that's ok with you?
> 
> It'll need to be uploaded to unstable first, but in general yes I'm
> happy to review/sponsor/upload versions of MySQL 5.6. As you'll have
> seen I have not had time to work on this independently yet.

Hi Lars,

Is the current status of the git repo ready for review and upload? If
so I'll hopefully do that in the next few days.

Cheers,
Dominic.