This is a new version of the patch instead of the reverted:

  MDEV-28727 ALTER TABLE ALGORITHM=NOCOPY does not work after upgrade

Ignore the difference in key packing flags HA_BINARY_PACK_KEY and HA_PACK_KEY
during ALTER to allow ALGORITHM=INSTANT and ALGORITHM=NOCOPY in more cases.

If for some reasons (e.g. due to a bug fix such as MDEV-20704) these
cumulative (over all segments) flags in KEY::flags are different for
the old and new table inside compare_keys_but_name(), the difference
in HA_BINARY_PACK_KEY and HA_PACK_KEY in KEY::flags is not really important:

MyISAM and Aria can handle such cases well: per-segment flags are stored in
MYI and MAI files anyway and they are read during ha_myisam::open()
ha_maria::open() time. So indexes get opened with correct per-segment
flags that were calculated during the table CREATE time, no matter
what the old (CREATE time) and new (ALTER TIME) per-index compression
flags are, and no matter if they are equal or not.

All other engine ignore key compression flags, so this change
is safe for other engines as well.