Hi Folks,

I ran into that problem and here is a quite easy solution, thanks to www.mytso.net:

•  edit /etc/apt/sources.list
  add the following line:
  deb http://debian.mytso.net/etch /
• edit /etc/apt/preferences
  add the following lines:
  
  Package: mysql-server-4.1
  Pin: version 4.1.11b-etch*
  Pin-Priority: 1001
• aptitude update
• aptitude install mysql-server-4.1 mysql-client-4.1 mysql-common-4.1 libmysqlclient14