Regardless of its status in 5.6/5.7, we shipped 5.5 to users in Ubuntu
14.04, when it was still undeprecated, so I think it is worth fixing in
14.04.
Note that in Ubuntu 15.04 and later, 5.6 is shipped, and mysqlhotcopy is
in fact shown as deprecated:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
leonick, can you please provide a clear step by step test case for us to
follow so we can be sure the patch works? Also, if you could re-make the
patch in unified format with 'diff -u' that would help make it easier to
apply, though we can manually apply it if you're unable to provide a
unified
