On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:54:10AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:10:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > 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. > >... > Please check the facts before spreading such misinformation. Indeed, the facts *were* checked; a libmysqlclient12 can connect to a MySQL 4.1 server on Debian using the default password hash algorithm. Unfortunately, it turns out this is because the Debian package has changed the default. Had I been aware of this three months ago, I almost certainly would have been trying to get people to switch to libmysqlclient14 instead of libmysqlclient12. :/ -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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