On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:52:02PM -0500, Adam M. wrote:

> >Ideally, we would have agreement to update all of the following packages to
> >libmysqlclient12 at the same time:

> I would suggest that libmysqlclient14 should be used if possible. MySQL
> has changed the way passwords are stored in the database and this
> prevents clients from connecting to MySQL databases unless old-passwords
> option is enabled (which it is in Debian). libmysqlclient12 clients
> cannot connect to MySQL 4.1.x and newer databases unless old password is
> explicitly used or enabled.

That's not true.  It's only libmysqlclient10 that can't connect using the
new protocol.

And using libmysqlclient14 means we still have the potential segfault
problem.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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