Hi, On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 08:28:00AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > >>>- 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. > > > > >* Raphael Hertzog: > > >>Do we have contacts at RedHat to discuss such plans ? Florian ? > > > > On 27.01.15 16:48, Florian Weimer wrote: > > >There is now a public bug describing the situation: > > > > > > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014979> > > > > > >Summary: The recommendation is to use software collections instead. > > > > would be it possible to replace it with MariaDB 5.1, by any chance? > > Moritz said "The mysql derivatives also stopped support for 5.1, e.g. > mariadb's last 5.1 release is a year old." so even if it would be > acceptable (I don't think it is), it would not really improve > the security situation.
I agree and just an additional information point: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-maintenance-policy/ , so you can see there mariadb 5.1 has it's 5 years boundary date at 1 Feb 2015. Regards, Salvatore -- 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/20150128073700.ga23...@lorien.valinor.li
