Re: MySQL 5.5 EOL before Debian 8 LTS ends

[Robie Basak]

Hi Otto and the LTS team,

On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 10:50:34AM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> I think that is *if* makes sense to engineer some automatic upgrade path in
> an LTS release, then it would be to introduce MariaDB 10.1 into Jessie.

If this is explicitly opted in to by users then I have no objection.

However since the MySQL -> MariaDB crossgrade is not easily reversible
(MariaDB modifies the on-disk schema/format), I don't think this is a
good idea to do automatically. Users may, on upgrade past Jessie, choose
to continue with MySQL coming from a source that isn't Debian stable
(eg. by using unstable, directly from upstream, or a change of
distribution). Automatically converting their database to not-MySQL
would make that difficult, and would be a violation of the stable
release promise for those users. I think that affected users would quite
rightly be upset about it.

Robie


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Re: [debian-mysql] Wheezy update of mysql-5.5?

[Robie Basak]

Hi Chris,

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 06:48:55PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
> If you don't want to take care of this update, it's not a problem, we
> will do our best with your package. Just let us know whether you would
> like to review and/or test the updated package before it gets released.

We're pretty busy in unstable and experimental with 5.7 at the moment,
so if you can take care of the update yourself, then please do.

Thanks,

Robie