Ondřej Surý: > Dear release team and fellow MySQL/MariaDB maintainers, > > the situation in stretch in regards to clean upgrade path from jessie is > a little bit unfortunate. [...]
I agree that we will be a lot better off with a proper fix for this problem. Plus it will probably save us a bunch of bug reports and angry users / sysadmins. > > Therefore I am proposing a one time fix specifically targeted at > stretch. I would like to prepare 'mysql-transitional' package that will > create a couple of dummy/transitional packages structured like this: > > mysql-server depends on default-mysql-server > mysql-client depends on default-mysql-client > > The version would be 5.5.999+mariadb, [...] Ack - at a quick glance it sounds fine (I got some minor bikeshedding about the version, but I suppose it is reasonably unlikely that there will be over 900 mysql-5.5 releases before it stops being supported). > > This upload would have to go directly into stretch, so an approval of > release team is required. > > Cheers, > Please file an unblock request for it to the request does not disappear. Feel free to consider it pre-approved (just reference this mail in the unblock request). Thanks, ~Niels
