Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2015-07-25 05:28:15 -0700: > ❦ 23 juillet 2015 07:17 -0700, Clint Byrum <spam...@debian.org> : > > > I'd be interested to hear the security team's impressions on how shipping > > micro releases of MySQL has gone for them. They've been doing most if not > > all of the work, and I haven't seen bug reports flying in about those > > updates, so I suspect our primary gripe about MySQL may actually be no > > big deal. Sure they have a _ridiculous_ policy about not telling us what > > the actual security problems were. But they also have quite impressive > > policies on not breaking things in micro releases. > > One minor gripe about that: MySQL doesn't provide a stable ABI across > those micro releases for external engines. So, any external engine has > to be recompiled. I have the problem with pinba-engine-mysql and didn't > want to make the way to stable with the problem unaddressed. I've asked > the release team for guidance [1] but didn't get an answer. > > I understand that there are more serious matters to address.
Agreed, this is one of those "why don't they just do that?" situations. I tried to package HandlerSocket and have given up for similar reasons. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
