Dear release team and fellow MySQL/MariaDB maintainers, the situation in stretch in regards to clean upgrade path from jessie is a little bit unfortunate. It works for most cases when something depends on default-mysql-server and pulls it as a dependency. But in situations where mysql-server was the top dependency, it simply uninstalls mysql-server-5.5 without any replacement.
I understand the reasons why we are here, but the situation where user needs to do: apt-get update # apt-get upgrade apt-get install default-mysql-server apt-get dist-upgrade is very inconvenient for the users and I foresee this will cause a lot of complaints, because it's quite common to run just "mysql-server" on the server. Therefore I am proposing a one time fix specifically targeted at stretch. I would like to prepare 'mysql-transitional' package that will create a couple of dummy/transitional packages structured like this: mysql-server depends on default-mysql-server mysql-client depends on default-mysql-client The version would be 5.5.999+mariadb, so it is always higher than version in jessie, but always lower than version in sid, as I don't want force epoch on mysql-5.7. This upload would have to go directly into stretch, so an approval of release team is required. Cheers, -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware, fast DNS(SEC) resolver Vše pro chleba (https://vseprochleba.cz) – Mouky ze mlýna a potřeby pro pečení chleba všeho druhu
