During the last weeks, MySQL suffered from many vulnerabilities (see DSA-2429-1 and DSA-2496-1). Due to the non-disclosure of security patch information from Oracle, the Debian security team is now forced to ship upstreams version update of MySQL 5.1 (5.1.63 as of this writing).
Then it makes no sense for Dotdeb to duplicate this effort and to maintain the same versions of MySQL 5.1 for Squeeze with the same features and level of optimization. As a consequence the MySQL 5.1 packages has been removed from the Dotdeb repository (you’ll find archived versions here).
Please just be sure to have debian-security in your sources.list to have the most recent security fixes for your MySQL 5.1 server :
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
Now, don’t worry, if you want to install a recent MySQL 5.5 server, the packages will still be actively maintained on Dotdeb, in terms of features and optimization.
Hi,
until today I used Dotdeb rep to install/upgrade Mysql. My sources.list actually looks like this:
main & security repositories
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
Dotdeb
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all
with this packages installed ( dpkg –get-selections):
mysql-client-5.5 install mysql-common install mysql-server-5.1 deinstall mysql-server-5.5 install mysql-server-core-5.5 install
Should I keep it like this ?