Hi Andreas, I agree with your considerations, but i don't quite understand what's your proposed solution,.did you talk to anyone from Debian MySQL Maintainers about packaging mysql-server-core? I will send them this request if you didn't.
Also, amarok can use mysql-server instead. The depedency tree mysql-server -> mysql-server-5.6 -> mysql-server-core-5.6 Will handle the missing.mysql-server-core package I believe this should be the fix if we cannot get mysql-server-core, making amarok a litle bloated but again if we don't get mysql-server-core. Thanks. Samuel Henrique O. P. [samueloph]