[debian-mysql] Bug#685072: upgrade issues

[Nicholas Bamber]

tag 685072 +unreproducible +moreinfo
thanks

I have not managed to reproduce this. I have tried piuparts in three
ways and a direct -6 to -7 upgrade. I have not had time to do a -5 to -7
upgrade as I did not have the -5 debs lying around.

I probably won't have time for a day or two to get them from
snapshot.debian.org. However I cannot see any obvious reason why this
should make a difference.

Just casting around for ideas the only thing I can think of at the
moment is can you upgrade from -5 to -7 via -6? You should be able to do
that easily for the next week with the following steps:

1.) change the source to testing in /etc/apt/sources.list
2.) apt-get update
3.) apt-get install mysql-server-5.5
4.) change the source back to sid
5.) apt-get update
6.) apt-get install mysql-server-5.5

Another thing that puzzled me is:

"1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed."

why are so few packages upgraded? I'm guessing that what is required to
trigger this is some sequence of partial upgrades rather than a
straightforward "apt-get upgrade". If so I doubt that this would warrant
the severity I put in earlier.