Transition Mysql 5.0 to 5.1 in main

[Mathias Gug]

Hi,

Christian Hammers uploaded MySQL 5.1 to unstable starting a transition
from libmysqlclient15off to libmysqlclient16 in unstable.

My proposal for Karmic is to move 5.1 to main while 5.0 is demoted to
universe. MySQL 5.0 would then be removed from the archive in the next
release cycle with a goal to only have 5.1 in the archive for the next
LTS.

One potential issue has been identified so far: the ndb cluster engine
is disabled in 5.1 while enabled in 5.0. To address this scenario the
mysql-server-5.1 preinst script checks whether an NDB cluster is in use
and aborts if so with the following message:

 MySQL-5.1 no longer provides NDB Cluster support. Please migrate to the
 new mysql-cluster package and remove all lines starting with "ndb" from
 all config files below /etc/mysql/.


However the mysql-cluster package doesn't exist yet. For the karmic
release the message above should probably be changed to state that the
mysql-server package should be removed and that mysql 5.0 is now in
Universe (mysql-server is just an empty package depending on the latest
mysql-server-X.Y package).

As far as the library transition is concerned the following packages in
main need to have their build-dependency on libmysqlclient15-dev updated
to libmysqlclient-dev:

$ grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends -s Package libmysqlclient15-dev /var/lib/apt/lists/localhost\:3142_ubuntu_dists_karmic_main_source_Sources
Package: akonadi
Package: apr-util
Package: bacula
Package: cyrus-sasl2
Package: dovecot
Package: exim4
Package: freeradius
Package: koffice
Package: libdbd-mysql-perl
Package: libgda3
Package: mod-auth-mysql
Package: nagios-plugins
Package: php5
Package: postfix
Package: python-mysqldb
Package: qt-x11-free
Package: qt4-x11
Package: redland
Package: rsyslog

Are there any other packages in main that need to be updated? Am I
missing something else?

-- 
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com
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