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  • "although I notice 5.6 is available for "stretch", the Debian testing branch, but Raspbian is behind with that" according to buildd.raspbian.org/status/… our autobuilders built mysql 5.6 for raspbian stretch nearly a month ago. Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 13:14
  • @PeterGreen Good call; I've edited that in, but I don't know how anyone could actually get this -- do you have any idea? If I add "testing", "staging", or "unstable" to a sources.list with "jessie", apt-get update then just says it cannot find an "entry...in Release File". Also, it very possibly will depend on a stretch libc, at which point it becomes inviable (or at least, really really inadvisable -- switching distros is a better option if that is the case). Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 13:38
  • More or less the same thing is true for sid -- it hasn't been incorporated into the Raspbian repos. While the libc version is probably not an issue, the Debian armhf binaries are ARMv7 like Ubuntu. You could try compiling it from the source package or upstream. Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 13:59
  • " If I add "testing", "staging", or "unstable" to a sources.list with "jessie", apt-get update then just says it cannot find an "entry...in Release File"." <-- I'm guessing you don't understand the format of sources.list but I would agree installing strech packages on a wheezy system isn't sensible. The most sensible option if you really need 5.6 is probablly to build from source. or upgrade to stretch but that is likely to open a can of worms of it's own. Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 14:12
  • @PeterGreen No, I'm not a big apt user -- based on your clue I replaced jessie with stretch (since sid failed) and that worked, then apt-cache has 5.6. I agree upgrading right now is a gamble, but I've edited in an explanation of how to do it (I think I've got that correct). I may try it when I get a chance just to see what happens. Commented Oct 16, 2015 at 14:27