Index: debian/control
===================================================================
--- debian/control	(revision 2042)
+++ debian/control	(working copy)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers <pkg-mysql-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>, Clint Byrum <clint@ubuntu.com>
-Build-Depends: libtool (>= 1.4.2-7), procps | hurd,  debhelper (>= 8.1.3~), file (>= 3.28), libncurses5-dev (>= 5.0-6), perl (>= 5.6.0), libwrap0-dev (>= 7.6-8.3), zlib1g-dev (>= 1:1.1.3-5), libreadline-dev, psmisc, po-debconf, chrpath, doxygen-latex, ghostscript,  gawk, bison, lsb-release, hardening-wrapper, cmake
+Build-Depends: libtool (>= 1.4.2-7), procps | hurd,  debhelper (>= 8.1.3~), file (>= 3.28), libaio-dev [linux-any], libncurses5-dev (>= 5.0-6), perl (>= 5.6.0), libwrap0-dev (>= 7.6-8.3), zlib1g-dev (>= 1:1.1.3-5), libreadline-dev, psmisc, po-debconf, chrpath, doxygen-latex, ghostscript,  gawk, bison, lsb-release, hardening-wrapper, cmake
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
 Homepage: http://dev.mysql.com/
 Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-mysql/mysql-5.5/
Index: debian/rules
===================================================================
--- debian/rules	(revision 2042)
+++ debian/rules	(working copy)
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@
     USE_STATIC_MYSQLD=--with-mysqld-ldflags=-all-static
 endif
 		
+ifneq (,$(findstring linux-gnu,$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)))
+    USE_LINUX_NATIVE_AIO=-DLINUX_NATIVE_AIO=ON
+endif
 
 configure-stamp-pic: FORCE_FPIC_CFLAGS=-fPIC
 configure-stamp-pic: FORCE_FPIC=-DWITH_PIC=On -DINSTALL_LIBDIR=lib/mysql
@@ -87,6 +90,7 @@
 		-DWITH_READLINE=OFF \
 		-DWITH_LIBEDIT=OFF \
 		$(USE_STATIC_MYSQLD) \
+		$(USE_LINUX_NATIVE_AIO) \
 		-DWITH_SSL=yes \
 	    -DCOMPILATION_COMMENT="($(DISTRIBUTION))" \
 	    -DMYSQL_SERVER_SUFFIX="-$(DEBVERSION)" \