[debian-mysql] Bug#625653: mysql-client-5.1: apt-get dist-upgrade fails

[Nigel Horne]

Package: mysql-client-5.1
Version: 5.1.56-1
Severity: normal

apt-get update
...
sh-4.1# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Failed
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mysql-client : Depends: mysql-client-5.1 but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
sh-4.1# dpkg -la | fgrep mysql-client
ii  mysql-client-5.1                       5.1.56-1                       MySQL database client binaries



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mysql-client-5.1 depends on:
ii  debianutils             3.4.4            Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                   2.13-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl       4.018-1          Perl5 database interface to the My
ii  libdbi-perl             1.616-1          Perl Database Interface (DBI)
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.6.0-6        GCC support library
ii  libmysqlclient16        5.1.56-1         MySQL database client library
ii  libncurses5             5.9-1            shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline6            6.2-1            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6              4.6.0-6          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwrap0                7.6.q-19         Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  mysql-common            5.1.56-1         MySQL database common files, e.g. 
ii  perl                    5.10.1-20        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

mysql-client-5.1 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mysql-client-5.1 suggests:
ii  libterm-readkey-perl          2.30-4     A perl module for simple terminal 

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