Hi Dominic, On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 01:38:19PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > As I need to have a MySQL 5.6 backport supported for the foreseeable > > > future, I intend to NMU a new upstream release in the next few weeks. > > > > > > Does anyone have any objections to this? > > > > > > I'm happy for you to do this - please join the team! Perhaps you could > > maintain a backport branch in VCS with us? > > I'm happy to maintain the backport in the team git repository. My > alioth username is 'dom'. However I am very unlikely to be able to > spend time on other MySQL packaging work in the forseeable future.
That's great, thanks! And sure - no expectation that you spend time on anything else other than the backport. > Bugs against backports should be reported to > debian-backpo...@lists.debian.org (which I am subscribed to), not > the BTS[1]. That user appears to have an odd mix of versions going on, > so this isn't really a bug in the backport, but rather mixing packages > from different sources. I wasn't aware of this, thank you. Then it's easy for me to point people reporting to the BTS to that instead. > That said I am happy to subscribe to the mailing list to watch out for > backports related issues. Thanks. Robie
