Forgot to CC bugs.debian.org in my messages to Andrew Lau. Here is my update, for the record :)
= 1) Yes, the build system definitely has issues. It's all generated by Anjuta right now, we are working on cleaning that up for the next release. The dependencies are listed in the README currently to assist people. 2) sussen uses an embedded MySQL server so it doesn't need to interact with the Debian one. It runs inside sussen, it doesn't listen on any ports and you can't access it from outside processes. When one of our employees was working on the RPMs for sussen, they ran into an issue with re-compiling MySQL server with the embedded support. Here is the config we used, might be helpful. The main things are --with-embedded-server and --with-client--ldflags=-lstdc++, but we haven't tested it with just those options yet. ./configure --libexecdir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc/mysql --localstatedir=/var/lib/mysql --with-raid --with-low-memory --enable-assembler --with-charset=latin1 --enable-local-infile --with-mysqld-user=mysql --with-extra-charsets=all --enable-thread-safe-client --with-client-ldflags=-lstdc++ --with-unix-socket-path=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock --with-embedded-server -- Loren Bandiera, CISSP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Star Chamber Inc.