Lars Tangvald: > > ----- gabs...@lelutin.ca wrote: > >> Ugh, I fail at reportbug again :( >> >> real sorry about the initial report. >> >> here's the real description of the problem: >> >> >> when upgrading from jessie to stretch, the upgrade goes through >> without >> an error but the end result is that mysql-server-5.5 gets removed and >> mysql is not running anymore. >> >> stretch is supposed to push ppl towards mariadb according to the >> (still >> work in progress) release notes, however mariadb doesn't get >> installed. >> >> There is no mysql-server, mysql-server-* or mysql-client-* packages >> in >> stretch so I believe this to be the source of the issue. >> >> One can fix the problem either by adding default-mysql-server before >> upgrading or after. however this poses a problem: >> >> * before the upgrade, the default-mysql-server package is only >> available in jessie-backports >> * after the upgrade, you've gotten no notice at all about what's >> happening and why the mysql server is not running and not upgraded. >> >> One way to make this an easier transition would be to have a >> mysql-server package in stretch that's a dummy package that depends >> on >> default-mysql-server, and that has an upgrade notice about the >> transition to mariadb that is happening. >> >> > The mysql package names should be reserved for actual mysql packages > (default-mysql, virtual-mysql etc. are named so because there isn't a better > term for "mysql-ish"). While the current situation with mysql being > half-uninstalled is pretty odd, we shouldn't automatically replace > mysql-server with mariadb-server, as it can cause problems for users who want > to keep using mysql, while those who are fine with either just need to > install mariadb after the upgrade.
This sounds reasonable, but there are currently lots of mysql-* packages
missing from stretch.
I can currently only see mysql-common, mysql-sandbox, mysql-utilities,
mysql-workbench{,-data}, mysqltcl, mysqltuner.
there are neither packages for client nor server.
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