Superb solution... NOT! The change in mysqlhotcopy between 5.5 and 5.6 is that you added the warning "deprecated and will be removed in a future": so I am sure it still does not work.
I guess this bug should be re-parented to mysql-server-5.6. Maybe I can figure out how to do that... Are you telling me that bugs in mysql 5.5 cannot be reported anymore? It is in use on jessie, so will be "live" for a while still. Cheers, Paul Paul Szabo p...@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia