[debian-mysql] Bug#552003: Control-W stopped working properly

[Anthony DeRobertis]

Package: mysql-client-5.1
Version: 5.1.37-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/mysql

In the mysql command line client ("mysql"), control-W used to delete one
word, just like in bash. I have confirmed that e.g., lenny's version
worked. Now instead it deletes the entire line. This is very annoying...

Maybe this is related:

  * Replaced --without-readline to --with-libedit to configure options, as
    --without-readline doesn't seem to do the right thing anymore.

Lenny's version (5.0.51a-24+lenny2) links against readline according to ldd;
current does not.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages mysql-client-5.1 depends on:
ii  debianutils            3.2.1             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                  2.9-25            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl      4.012-1+b1        A Perl5 database interface to the 
ii  libdbi-perl            1.609-1           Perl Database Interface (DBI)
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.1-4         GCC support library
ii  libmysqlclient16       5.1.37-2          MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses5            5.7+20090803-2    shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.1-4           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-18          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  mysql-common           5.1.37-2          MySQL database common files (e.g. 
ii  perl                   5.10.1-5          Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

mysql-client-5.1 recommends no packages.

mysql-client-5.1 suggests no packages.

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