[debian-mysql] Bug#505938: libmyodbc: Client programs crash with linker error

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:04:41AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > reassign 505938 libmysqlclient15off
> > found 505938 5.0.67-1
> > thanks

> FWIW, I grabbed the new upstream ODBC driver, applied the Debian patches
> to it, ignored the failed diffs, and corrected one patch error.  It
> seemed to work fine, though I didn't test it extensively.

> Couldn't you resolve the upgrade path with judicious use of conflicts
> and depends though?

That the conflicts would still be the responsibility of libmysqlclient15off,
which is the package that has broken the ABI stability promise expressed in
the etch shlibs file.

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