Main Inclusion Report for mysql-dfsg-5.1

Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/m/mysql-dfsg-5.1; available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • Replace mysql 5.0 with mysql 5.1 in main.

3. Security:

   • CVE entries: ...

   • Secunia history: ...

   • Launches the mysql daemon.
   • No setuid/sgid riles.
   • Due to the nature of mysql it can open a port and can handle incoming network traffic.
   • It can directly (not through a library) process binary (video, audio, etc) or structured (PDF, etc) data.
   • No source code review.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The situation where mysql does not work out of the box without configuration is that if the user does not select a mysql root password.
   • The package does not ask any debconf questions higher than priority 'medium'.

   • Debian bugs.

   • Maintenance in Debian is vigorous.

   • Upstream is frenetic.

   • Upstream bug tracker: (mention any particularly relevant or critical)

   • No special hardware is needed.
   • There is an upstream testsuite but it is not enabled because it fails currently in the debian package.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS and Debian Policy compliant.

   • Use debhelper and dpatch with no packaging oddities.

6. Dependencies:

   • libtool (in main)
   • procps (in main)
   • debhelper (in main)
   • libncurses5-dev (in main)
   • perl (in main)
   • libwrap0-dev (in main)
   • zlib1g-dev (in main)
   • libreadline5-dev (in main)
   • psmisc (in main)
   • po-debconf (in main)
   • chrpath (in main)
   • automake1.9 (in main)
   • doxygen (in main)
   • texlive-latex-base (in main)
   • gs (in main)
   • dpatch (in main)
   • gawk (in main)
   • bison (in main)
   • lsb-release (in main)
   • debianutils (in main)
   • libdbi-perl (in main)
   • libdbd-mysql-perl (in main)

7. Maintenance:

   • The mysql-dfsg-5.1 will need the same level of maintenance as the mysql-dfsg-5.0 package in Ubuntu. The Ubuntu server team will be responsible for the qualitiy of the package and fixing its bugs.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://launchpad.net/bugs/408333

The author of this report should put their name here; reviewers will add comments etc. too