Comment 7 for bug 986179

I don't think this is a correct analysis. The packaging for Amarok already depends on the libraries required for running embedded MySQL, making it impossible for the Ubuntu Amarok package to be installed without at least MySQLe support.

The issue here is that configuration taken from a computer with a local external database and placed on a computer without the configured database set up yet. If Yuriy decided to switch to using the embedded database, this crash would not occur.

In the database configuration section of Amarok's settings, it does give the warning that Amarok expects external databases to already exist, but a case could be made that an incorrectly configured database shouldn't crash Amarok, but to instead provide an error reporting path that does not result in the immediate termination of the application.

Either way the Amarok development team chooses to look at this, the issue is either an Amarok bug or a user configuration bug, and not a packaging bug.