Am 22.01.2018 um 13:42 schrieb Lars Tangvald:First off, thanks for handling the 5.5.59 update for Wheezy. I had the security announcement date mixed up so picked it up too late, sorry. MySQL 5.5 is expected to be EOL in December (it was first released December 15, 2010, and we have 8 year security support), while Jessie LTS is until April 2020 How are such cases handled? Will the source package be removed, or is it possible to have it upgraded to a more recent version?
On 22/01/18 16:35, Markus Koschany wrote:These are both possible options but given the significance of MySQL we would rather prefer to upgrade to a supported release provided this is viable for Jessie.
If an upgrade is possible, while we did a successful transition in Ubuntu from 5.5 to 5.7, there were significant changes from 5.6 to 5.7, requiring small changes to a lot of third-party packages as well as to the default server behavior, so 5.6 (which is supported until 2021) would be a better option.
I also think it makes sense to take a smaller step and upgrade from 5.5 to 5.6. Are there any known issues with 5.6 or can you share any information about expected regressions with reverse-dependencies?
On 19.05.18 20:41, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
jessie ships mysql-5.5 and mariadb-10.0. Given that stretch no longer ships mysql but only mariadb, we could just let mysql-5.5 go end of life, mark it as unsupported (or drop the server part), and keep supporting mariadb-10.0. Users will need to move to mariadb at some point anyway. The only problem is that mariadb-10.0 goes EOL on March 2019. mariadb-10.1 is EOL on October 2020, so if we decided to provide that in jessie that would be enough.
There are packages in jessie that depend on mysql (or libmysql), not on mariadb. IMHO If it's possible to migrate to mysql-5.6 and later from mysql-5.6 to stretch, it would be a better alternative than deprecate it. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uhlar@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Boost your system's speed by 500% - DEL C:\WINDOWS\*.*