[debian-mysql] [RFC PATCH 0/9] MySQL 5.6 transition status

[Norvald H. Ryeng]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:03:42 +0200, Robie Basak  
<robie.basak at canonical.com> wrote:

> 3. A dist-upgrade after applying these patches seems to want to cause
> apt to remove mysql-server, instead of pulling in the mysql-server-5.6
> dependency. I will try further, but any advice here would be
> appreciated. Is it acceptable to require users to apt-get install
> mysql-server directly to get the upgrade to go?

I've been trying to reproduce this, but I can't. Maybe you've already  
fixed it?

If I install a fresh utopic, aptitude install mysql-server,  
add-apt-repository ppa:racb/experimental, aptitude update:

root at utopic:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   mysql-client-5.6{a} mysql-client-core-5.6{a} mysql-common-5.6{a}  
mysql-server-5.6{a} mysql-server-core-5.6{a}
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   mysql-client-5.5{u} mysql-client-core-5.5{u} mysql-server-5.5{u}  
mysql-server-core-5.5{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libmysqlclient18 mysql-common mysql-server
3 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 21,5 MB of archives. After unpacking 69,1 MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

If I install a fresh utopic, aptitude install mysql-server-5.5,  
add-apt-repository ppa:racb/experimental, aptitude update:

root at utopic:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   mysql-common-5.6{a}
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libmysqlclient18 mysql-common
2 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 927 kB of archives. After unpacking 685 kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

So I end up running the old MySQL 5.5 with the 5.6 config. I'm not sure if  
that's a problem.

Norvald