[ CC Florian due to his relationship with RedHat ] Hi Moritz,
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Possible solutions: > - End of life for mysql in Debian LTS (but massive reverse deps) This is not something acceptable. mysql is one of those key packages that a majority of companies are using. FTR, 85% of the companies who sponsor LTS through Freexian have mysql-5.1 in their package list (possibly sometimes only for libmysqlclient16 though). > - Provide a backport of 5.5 for squeeze-lts (mysql also ships a lib, > though) Yeah, this might mean having to rebuild a lot of packages... a quick look at reverse dependencies shows about 170 binary packages depending on libmysqlclient16. > - Try to backport fixes based on the 5.5.x interdiffs (since Oracle > publishes no detailed bug details). Complicated, but could be done > in collaboration with Red Hat, RHEL 6 is also based on MySQL 5.1. Do we have contacts at RedHat to discuss such plans ? Florian ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lts-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150126100733.gc11...@home.ouaza.com
