[debian-mysql] Backporting MySQL?

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 09:25:09AM +0100, Lars Tangvald wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/28/2016 04:57 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:22:57AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> >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.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, the git repo should be good for review and upload.
> One question, though: You mentioned at the start that you were interested in
> maintaining the backport for 5.6. Is it only 5.6? Our plan with the upload
> of 5.7 to unstable was for it to replace 5.6 (though I'm not sure what the
> timeline for that would be).
> Is it only 5.6 that's of interest to you, or would 5.7 also work for you?

My main concern is having a security-supported backport of MySQL > 5.5.
At the moment the best of achieving that without the additional  risk of a
major version upgrade is to carry on using 5.6, so if you would be able
to continue to support that for a while that'd be much appreciated, but
I realise this isn't sustainable long-term.

>From your side, is there more work needed on mysql-5.7 in unstable before
you would consider it suitable for backporting to stable?

Cheers,
Dominic.