[debian-mysql] Bug#686803: Bug#686803: upgrade from 5.5.24+dfsg-4 to 5.5.24+dfsg-7 failed: "dependency problems - leaving unconfigured"

[Nicholas Bamber]

severity 685072 important
tag 685072 -moreinfo
merge 686803 685072
thanks

I cannot reproduce the issue but I have a theory what is required is
adding a breaks clause to mysql-server-core-5.5

Breaks: mysql-server-5.5 (<< ${binary:Version})

As far as I undersyand it the background is that mysql-server-core-5.5
was split out from mysql-server-5.5 because a certain dependent
application wanted to use the binaries but use its own management
scripts. So mysql-server-5.5 has a clause

Depends: mysql-server-core-5.5 (= ${binary:Version})

So maybe everything is okay when mysql-server-5.5 gets looked at before
mysql-server-core-5.5 but not vice versa.

In your case I would try:

apt-get install mysql-server-5.5