Bug#404153: libmysql-java: out-of-date package causes problems with mysql5

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Package: libmysql-java
Version: 3.1.11-1
Severity: important


I am receiving "unknown type '246 in column..." error when using mysql 5
tables in openoffice.org base. this is a known issue over at mysql. you
can read about it at http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14609 

this bug was fixed in 3.1.13 of the upstream package and was in the
nightly builds as of January 2006. upstream already has 3.1.14 out as
well. 

this bug makes the package unusable for me as I am using the dec type
fields in mysql. I could change them to floats, but that seems silly as
they aren't... an upgrade would be truly appreciated.

ftr, 

andrew at debian:~$ mysql -V
mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.30, for pc-linux-gnu (i486) using readline
5.2


thanks!

A


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libmysql-java depends on:
ii  gij [java2-runtime]           4:4.1.1-13 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  gij-4.1 [java1-runtime]       4.1.1-20   The GNU Java bytecode interpreter

libmysql-java recommends no packages.

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