Comment 11 for bug 684398

Confirming fix works on Lucid

mysql> ALTER TABLE `grtdiff_alter_test`.`t1` DROP COLUMN `t` , ADD COLUMN `t2` TEXT NULL FIRST;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13 sec)
Records: 0 Duplicates: 0 Warnings: 0

mysql> \q
Bye
root@utest-lls32:~# apt-cache policy mysql-server
mysql-server:
  Installed: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9
  Candidate: 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9
  Version table:
 *** 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.9 0
        500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-proposed/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.1.41-3ubuntu12.8 0
        500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
     5.1.41-3ubuntu12.7 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
     5.1.41-3ubuntu12 0
        500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

root@utest-lls32:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04