Hi there, Freexian assigned me 13.5 hours in October to work on Squeeze LTS, and this is what I have done, partially working already on November.
I started the month as LTS frontdesk, and I committed around eight changes into the svn repo to triage different issues. Then, I focused the heavy work on packaging mysql-5.5 for squeeze. Sadly, mysql 5.1 is now unsupported upstream, and Oracle does not disclose information to know if squeezy is affected by security flaws. Since mysql is highly used by the squeeze users, we needed to find a solution. Taking the packages made by the security team for wheezy, I have initially packaged and uploaded to my personal repo the 5.5.44 version and currently the 5.5.46. I followed Raphaël Hertzog's suggestions, dropping the unversioned packages libmysqld-pic, libmysqld-dev, libmysqlclient-dev, mysql-server, mysql-client. Raphaël also suggested to drop mysql-common, but I found some incompatibility issues among the two versions (see below). However, to be sure about this, I am currently building a new package to verify if it's safe to drop it. For the moment, I moved the mysql-common to mysql-common-5.5, which conflicts against mysql-common (>= 5.5.44-0+deb7u1) so apt will clean it when the users will upgrade to wheezy. I am happy with the current state. I have successfully tested a wordpress site. I have also verified will smoothly upgrade to wheezy, and that the user could downgrade to mysql 5.1. However, it would be really, really useful if we could have some feedback from the users. Moreover, Raphaël found some issues with packages relying on dbconfig-common. I have started to test the packages listed in: https://titanpad.com/cRc6eiCH5t Cheers, Santiago * mysql-common 5.5 is not fully compatible backwards. A user wanting to downgrade to mysql 5.1 would get some errors when trying to start mysqld: [ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: unknown variable 'lc-messages-dir=/usr/share/mysql' [ERROR] Aborting
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