[debian-mysql] Bug#450535: This seems to break mod_perl with DBD::Mysql

[Stefan Fritsch]

On Saturday 11 April 2009, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> from #521117 it looks like that the lack of different symbol
> versions in libmysqlclient and libmysqlclient_r broke DBD::Mysql
> when used via mod_perl in lenny (and squeeze/sid).
> Unfortunately /usr/lib/perl5/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so links to
> libmysqlclient.so, but I didn't think of it when changing
> libaprutil1 and php-mysql (mod_perl is supposed to be thread safe,
> anyway).

It seems the set of bugs reported to apache are actually bugs in 
DBD::MySQL (#520406) and may have nothing to do with the 
libmysqlclient.so/libmysqlclient_r.so linkage. OTOH, right now it's 
impossible to check if loading both libraries into one process causes 
problems.