[debian-mysql] Bug#855656: release-notes: update on mysql/mariadb for stretch

[Vincent McIntyre]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:56:44AM +0100, Baptiste Jammet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le 21/02/2017 01:09, Vincent McIntyre a écrit :
> 
> >this is a start on the notes needed regarding mysql/mariadb.
> >[...]
> >Comments welcome.
> Thanks for the patch. Here are some comments:
> 
> >       <row id="new-mysql">
> > 	<entry>MySQL<indexterm><primary>MySQL</primary></indexterm></entry>
> > 	<entry>5.5</entry>
> >-	<entry>5.6</entry>
> >+	<entry>-</entry>
> Maybe we could remove the entire line instead.
> Or mark the second column with <entry>removed</entry>.
> 

Sure, <entry>removed</entry> seens fine to me.

> >+ Installing the metapackage XX will pull in YY
> s/will pull in/will install/ ?
> 
> >+    The <systemitem role="package">virtual-mysql-*</systemitem> packages
> >+    will continue to exist.
> I don't find any package named like this. Could you explain, please ?

This was taken from an email thread of the mysql packagers and it
was not all that clear to me either. I found an explanation here
   https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL/virtual-mysql-server

Since this seems to be something that only matters to packagers
of mysql-related software, perhaps the sentence should be dropped?

> 
> >+    See the <ulink url="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MySQL">Debian MySQL
> >Team
> >+    wiki page</ulink>
> s/http/https/
> 
> >+    software availble in Debian.
> typo : available
> 

Agree on these

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