Please note that this behaviour is in fact documented in the MySQL manual. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/metadata-locking.html
The behaviour in 5.1 was indeed different, but this is an intentional and documented change, and required for binary logs to be correct. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org