Regardless of its status in 5.6/5.7, we shipped 5.5 to users in Ubuntu 14.04, when it was still undeprecated, so I think it is worth fixing in 14.04.
Note that in Ubuntu 15.04 and later, 5.6 is shipped, and mysqlhotcopy is in fact shown as deprecated:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/mysql-5.6/vivid/view/head:/scripts/mysqlhotcopy.sh#L161
Now, my personal feeling is that users should stop using it _immediately_ because it really is a terrible thing to rely on. But, we take bugs that might affect data integrity, including backups, pretty seriously.
Regardless of its status in 5.6/5.7, we shipped 5.5 to users in Ubuntu 14.04, when it was still undeprecated, so I think it is worth fixing in 14.04.
Note that in Ubuntu 15.04 and later, 5.6 is shipped, and mysqlhotcopy is in fact shown as deprecated:
http:// bazaar. launchpad. net/~ubuntu- branches/ ubuntu/ vivid/mysql- 5.6/vivid/ view/head: /scripts/ mysqlhotcopy. sh#L161
Now, my personal feeling is that users should stop using it _immediately_ because it really is a terrible thing to rely on. But, we take bugs that might affect data integrity, including backups, pretty seriously.