[debian-mysql] Processing of mysql-5.5_5.5.17-1_amd64.changes

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Norbert Tretkowski's message of Wed Nov 09 13:27:07 -0800 2011:
> Am 09.11.11 04:50, schrieb Debian FTP Masters:
> > mysql-5.5_5.5.17-1_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost
> 
> Clint, thanks a lot for taking care of this!
> 

Thanks for the kind words Norbert, and everyone else. Special thanks
to Steve Langasek for expediting uploads while I work through the DD
process. :)

There's still much work to do. I've pushed a version into the SVN tree
that implements multi-arch for libmysqlclient, and then we need to drop
libmysqlclient-dev and libmysqld-dev as well from mysql-5.1. Then we'll
have a rebuild transition to get everything using libmysqlclient18.

With libmysqlclient18, there's no longer a libmysqlclient_r, as
libmysqlclient itself is now thread safe. Upstream provides symlinks, but
they are unreliable and break with policy, so I've dropped them in favor
of fixing the few projects that use -lmysqlclient_r to only do it on versions
prior to 5.5.

Also, with multi-arch, some older autoconf macros will break because
they simply search /usr/lib for the .so's. We'll find these in a rebuild,
which should commence next week.