I am about to upload on a 5-day delay the attached patch for this bug. If you would rather fix it yourself you will know what to do.
diff -Nru sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/changelog sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/changelog --- sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/changelog 2012-04-20 03:50:21.000000000 +0100 +++ sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/changelog 2012-06-11 21:32:01.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +sphinxsearch (2.0.4-1.1) unstable; urgency=low + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Removed hard-coded dependency on libmysqlclient16 (Closes: #676595) + + -- Nicholas Bamber <nicho...@periapt.co.uk> Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:31:53 +0000 + sphinxsearch (2.0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. diff -Nru sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/control sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/control --- sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/control 2012-04-20 03:50:06.000000000 +0100 +++ sphinxsearch-2.0.4/debian/control 2012-06-11 21:34:39.000000000 +0100 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Package: sphinxsearch Architecture: any -Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libmysqlclient16, adduser +Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, adduser Description: Fast standalone full-text SQL search engine Sphinx is a standalone full text search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications.