Looking for Feedback: Update mysql from 5.1 to 5.5

[Clint Byrum]

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 16:51 -0800, Clint Byrum wrote:
> So, I think we'll drop the client libraries completely out of the
> control file(including the -dev packages) so nobody build-deps on them
> before they've figured out how to version the libs properly.
> 
> I opened this bug this morning, which should hopefully clearly spell out
> the issues for them:
> 
> http://bugs.mysql.com/60061
> 

Just as a follow up, while the public bug report hasn't been updated,
I've received at least one assurance that mysql engineers are looking at
this, and believe the ABI incompatibility was inadvertently caused by
the move from autotools to cmake. They'd prefer to keep the ABI
compatible with previous versions rather than bump SONAME.

On a related note, this bug was opened to help clarify the client
exception in the source distribution, since the exception file was
dropped without explanation anywhere else in the tarballs:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=60124

I think this leaves us in the same boat.. ship the 5.5 server and
utilities in universe, leave out the client libraries.