[debian-mysql] Bug#675304: Bug#675304: amarok

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Nicholas Bamber's message of 2012-05-31 14:05:36 -0700:
> Modestas,
>     I would be very grateful if you could advise us on this bug: 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675304
> 
>     I presume what has happpened is that the user is on testing and did an 
> apt-get upgrade. Because  of the current state of affairs his mysql got 
> upgraded and not his amarok.
>     
>     I don't quite see why that should cause his amarok to fail - an 
> explanation would be appreciated.
> 
>     Should we be asking for the amarok 2.5.0-3 to be rushed through to 
> testing? Should we put  a breaks clause to make late mysql incompatible 
> with early versions of amarok - though I really don't want to do that as 
> it would be unworkable in the long term.
> 
>     Also beyond following the proper transition procedures is there 
> something we could be doing to avoid these situations?
> 

If I had to guess, I'd say its the new MySQL 5.5 mysql-common's my.cnf
directives that the old 5.1 libmysqld embedded in amarok does not
understand.

A workaround is probably to comment those out of /etc/mysql/my.cnf until
the new amarok is available.