Thanks to Christian Hammers, we finally have
MySQL 5.1 in
Debian unstable, which completely replaces MySQL 5.0. Please update all build-dependencies from libmysqlclient15-dev to libmysqlclient-dev and upload a rebuild version of your package.
As a positive side-effect, we no longer care about MySQL bug
#41728, which was the reason why no newer version of MySQL 5.0 made it into testing since lenny got released.
MySQL 5.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable, and until we get it into testing, I am providing semi-official up-to-date backports of MySQL 5.1.36 and 5.0.84 for i386 and amd64 in my home directory on people.debian.org. I am providing MySQL 5.0.84 for Debian
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