On 22/01/18 16:35, Markus Koschany wrote: > Hi, > > Am 22.01.2018 um 13:42 schrieb Lars Tangvald: >> Hi, >> >> 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? > > 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?
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. (Just giving some more options here.) Emilio
