[debian-mysql] Bug#585877: mysql-server: drops cluster support, but the suggested "mysql-cluster" package does not exist

[Toni Mueller]

Package: mysql-server
Version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny4
Severity: important


Hello,

I was upgrading a server from Lenny's MySQL to the backport from Squeeze
in order to gain better cluster support. Currently, this is what is see
on the target machine:

# dpkg -l 'mysql-server*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version                  Description
+++-========================-========================-================================================================
iU  mysql-server             5.1.47-1~bpo50+1         MySQL database server (metapackage depending on the latest versi
un  mysql-server-4.1         <none>                   (no description available)
rc  mysql-server-5.0         5.0.51a-24+lenny2+spu1   MySQL database server binaries
iHR mysql-server-5.1         5.1.47-1~bpo50+1         
un  mysql-server-core        <none>                   (no description available)
un  mysql-server-core-5.0    <none>                   (no description available)
ii  mysql-server-core-5.1    5.1.47-1~bpo50+1         MySQL database server binaries


In the process of upgrading, I see this message from debconf:

------------------------ snip
NDB Cluster seems to be in use

MySQL-5.1 no longer provides NDB Cluster support. Please migrate to the new mysql-cluster package and remove all lines starting with "ndb" from all config files below
/etc/mysql/.
------------------------ snip


Unfortunately, I see no mysql-cluster package in any distribution of
Debian (ie. everything from stable to experimental), and neither
anything related in incoming or new.

This is really not a good idea, imho. If you drop cluster support and
suggest that one uses a separate cluster package, that package should be
there by the time the new package without cluster support hits the
archives.


Kind regards,
--Toni++



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (450, 'testing'), (250, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-server depends on:
ii  mysql-server-5.0       5.0.51a-24+lenny4 MySQL database server binaries

mysql-server recommends no packages.

mysql-server suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information