On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 22:52:22 +0100, Nicholas Bamber wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > > At some point we need to transition from mysql-5.1 to mysql-5.5. We > would like to do this before the freeze though we appreciate that time > is now short. We arrived at this position as the Debian MySQL Team became > increasingly understaffed. It is better now but not ideal. > > We certainly will get mysql-5.5 into unstable in the next few weeks. > The question > is can we migrate all the dependencies over and drop mysql-5.1 before the > freeze? > *sigh* apparently you uploaded this to sid without even waiting for an answer, so we now have an uncoordinated libmysqlclient SONAME bump on our hands... > If that fails then we will be left supporting a version of MySQL that is not > supported upstream. > Given how well that "support" works anyway I'm not sure how much of a loss that is. > As far as I can see the upstream packages that are likely to require > recompilation are: > That's an awfully long list to be breaking without coordination. I'm not amused. Cheers, Julien
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