Comments on: Update for OurDelta 9.04 Jaunty builds of MySQL http://ourdelta.org/update-for-ourdelta-904-jaunty-builds Enhanced, packaged convenience for MySQL and MariaDB Wed, 14 Mar 2012 23:33:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: arjen http://ourdelta.org/update-for-ourdelta-904-jaunty-builds#comment-724 arjen Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:59:37 +0000 http://ourdelta.org/?p=407#comment-724 Thanks for the clarification Colin! Thanks for the clarification Colin!

]]> By: Colin Watson http://ourdelta.org/update-for-ourdelta-904-jaunty-builds#comment-721 Colin Watson Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:28:14 +0000 http://ourdelta.org/?p=407#comment-721 No, that wasn't what happened. See the changelog: mysql-dfsg-5.0 (5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low * No change upload. Rebuild so that libmysqlclient15-dev is again available in jaunty. mysql-dfsg-5.1_5.1.30-2ubuntu1 provided a libmysqlclient15-dev transitional package. -2ubuntu2 doesn't provide libmysqlclient15-dev anymore. (LP: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316280" rel="nofollow">#316280</a>). -- Mathias Gug Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:24:13 -0500 We pulled in MySQL 5.1 from Debian experimental, because some other packages needed it (Amarok, if I remember correctly, though I haven't checked). I don't believe it was ever intended to become the default for everything. Unfortunately the uploader didn't notice that the mysql-dfsg-5.1 source package delivered a libmysqlclient15-dev, which took over the one previously delivered by mysql-dfsg-5.0. In order to undo this mistake, there was no alternative but to increase the version number. Regardless of the structure of the version numbers, any add-ons you deliver to an Ubuntu release will need to have higher version numbers than the packages in the release in order to work properly; it makes no difference at all why the version numbers were changed. You can use <code>dpkg --compare-versions</code> to test this. No, that wasn’t what happened. See the changelog:

mysql-dfsg-5.0 (5.1.30really5.0.75-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

* No change upload. Rebuild so that libmysqlclient15-dev is again available
in jaunty. mysql-dfsg-5.1_5.1.30-2ubuntu1 provided a libmysqlclient15-dev
transitional package. -2ubuntu2 doesn’t provide libmysqlclient15-dev
anymore. (LP: #316280).

— Mathias Gug Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:24:13 -0500

We pulled in MySQL 5.1 from Debian experimental, because some other packages needed it (Amarok, if I remember correctly, though I haven’t checked). I don’t believe it was ever intended to become the default for everything. Unfortunately the uploader didn’t notice that the mysql-dfsg-5.1 source package delivered a libmysqlclient15-dev, which took over the one previously delivered by mysql-dfsg-5.0. In order to undo this mistake, there was no alternative but to increase the version number.

Regardless of the structure of the version numbers, any add-ons you deliver to an Ubuntu release will need to have higher version numbers than the packages in the release in order to work properly; it makes no difference at all why the version numbers were changed. You can use dpkg --compare-versions to test this.

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