[debian-mysql] tentative release notes item

[Vincent McIntyre]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 10:01:02AM +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 03:45:56PM +1100, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> > +    The <systemitem role="package">virtual-mysql-*</systemitem> packages
> > +    will continue to exist.
> > +    MySQL continues to be maintained in Debian, but bugs in version 5.7
> > +    prevented it being included in &Releasename;.
> 
> This is inaccurate. The security and release teams vetoed MySQL in
> stretch against the wishes of the Debian MySQL maintainers team. Bugs
> have nothing to do with it (except the blocking bug that the release
> team filed to remove MySQL from stretch to implement this policy).
> 
> We continue to maintain MySQL 5.7 in sid.
> 
> I don't know how you want to express this in the release notes,
> but I don't think the current text is OK to leave as-is.

Thank you for clarifying this. How about

+    The <systemitem role="package">virtual-mysql-*</systemitem> packages
+    will continue to exist.                                     
+    MySQL continues to be maintained in Debian and will be
+    included in future stable releases.

Kind regards
Vince