A new build with mysql-workbench version 8 on debian testing (2019.6) worked. The workbench sources don't make it easy to compile into a DEB package and some seem outdate. This is why I created this ...

A wrapper for deb package mysql-workbench-community from original mysql repository repo.mysql.com.. Official packages from mysql tend to take a long time to come out on newly released operating ...

MySQL could have heightened the value of this service by letting an open-source version of Workbench run wild in the community, with all sorts of third-party modifications, plug-ins, etc.