Re: End of life for MySQL 5.1
Hi,
we use mysql-server and -client on some Debian squeeze machines, but we
don't use any more advanced features like replication.
> - 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.
>From my point of view, this would be the best way.
But i think that this would be the option with the most work involved.
Because oft that thought, our 2nd priority would be the backport. We
upgraded some servers to wheezy (and therefore mysql-server-5.5) and had
no problem at all regarding MySQL.
The only negative thing that comes to my mind regarding a 5.5.x-backport
would be, that there might be many squeeze-admins who did the simple
switch to squeeze-lts in sources.list but wouldn't do the work involved
with installing the backport.
kind of a "political" question, whether these people should be supported
in their lazyness..
Regards,
Andreas
Am 21.01.2015 um 08:46 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> Hi,
> I just noticed that MySQL 5.1 is now EOLed by Oracle:
>
> http://www.mysql.com/support/eol-notice.html:
>
> | Per Oracle's Lifetime Support policy, as of December 31, 2013, MySQL
> | 5.1 is covered under Oracle Sustaining Support.
>
> As per http://www.mysql.com/support/ this means:
>
> | No new releases, no new fixes (no error correction for new issues), no new updates
>
> The mysql derivatives also stopped support for 5.1, e.g. mariadb's
> last 5.1 release is a year old.
>
> Possible solutions:
> - End of life for mysql in Debian LTS (but massive reverse deps)
> - Provide a backport of 5.5 for squeeze-lts (mysql also ships a lib,
> though)
> - 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
>
>
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