Excerpts from Norvald Ryeng's message of 2014-10-01 11:37:58 -0700: > ----- [email protected] wrote: > > > On 01/10/14 16:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > >>> If the release team is OK with this, we'll go ahead and upload > > >>> mysql-5.6 to unstable and raise bugs for the three impacted > > >>> packages. Please can you confirm. > > > I think it's rather late for such an upload, especially when it > > > involves an ABI break. I asked other RT members and the answer I > > > got also was that it was too late for this. > > > > > > So I'd say we stay at 5.5 for Jessie. > > > > OK; upstream support lifetimes are OK for this so should be ok. > > There's one more issue. MySQL 5.6 is already almost 2 years old. 5.7 is > probably released before jessie+1, but the recommended upgrade path is 5.5 -> > 5.6 -> 5.7, so there should be one release with 5.6 first in order to provide > an upgrade path. >
Are you suggesting that mysql_upgrade in 5.7 cannot upgrade from 5.5 directly? That would be most unfortunate. I still don't think we can ship 5.6 in jessie if there are ABI issues. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
