Bug#861580: (pre-approval) unblock: mysql-connector-python/2.1.6

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Sandro Tosi:
>> NOTE: the test suite contains certificates that expire in 2018.  If that
>> causes test failures, then that is an RC bug (as it would mean we would
>> be unable to compile mysql-connector-python in stretch before its EOL).
>> AFAICT, said problem would also exists in the current version (except
>> the expiry reads 2017 instead).
>>   Please consider replacing the certificates with once that can survive
>> stretch + stretch-lts's life-time.
> 
> that's kinda tricky: what is the lifetime for stretch + stretch-lts?
> :) should i guess (inferring from previous releases), do you want to
> give me a date until making those certs valid, something else?
> 

(For future cases) I would say 10 years would suffice once the freeze
has started.  That said, I hope that there will be fewer cases of this
problem in general. :)

> As of now tests failure wont make the build fail, so --if that's ok
> with the RT-- i may continue with keeping those certs as upstream
> released them.
> 

Ack, fine with me.  Please go ahead with the certs as is.

Thanks,
~Niels