Looking for Feedback: Update mysql from 5.1 to 5.5

[Micah Gersten]

On 02/14/2011 01:55 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> 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.

Wouldn't it be better to throw MySQL 5.5 in a PPA rather than having 2
versions in the archive? Then, when the client libs are fixed, you can
just update the PPA.

Micah