[debian-mysql] Support for MySQL 5.0 and 5.1

[Norbert Tretkowski]

Am Mittwoch, den 21.01.2009, 14:02 -0500 schrieb Mathias Gug:
> The first option is to make them conflict with each other: you can only
> have 5.0 or 5.1 installed on a system. That almost works now: there is
> only one option (skip-bdb) in /etc/mysql/my.cnf from 5.0 that isn't
> supported by 5.1.

I think this is the way we go, mostly because I'm quite the only one
working on the MySQL packages in Debian at the moment (in my spare time
mostly), and I'm currently more interested in getting mysql-cluster
packages into Debian.

> One thing that is sure is that supporting both 5.0 and 5.1 installed would
> require significant work in both 5.0 and 5.1 packages. That's why I'm
> seeking input from the Debian maintainer team. What's your opinion on
> this?

Supporting both 5.0 and 5.1 would be great indeed, but I personally
never had a situation where I needed two different releases installed on
one machine, so it's a quite low-prio item on my personal TODO list.

	Norbert