[debian-mysql] [MBF] mysql meta-packages

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2016-12-17 23:46 GMT+02:00 Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>:
> I've been thinking about smooth upgrades from mysql-server in jessie to
> default-mysql-server in stretch.
> Since mysql-server is (only) recommended (and not being depended on) by
> quite a few packages and that recommendation will be likely replaced by
> "default-mysql-server | mysql-server", I can anticipate upgrade
> scenarios where the jessie system successfully upgraded to stretch but
> still runs mysql-5.5 from jessie. This is because stretch will ship
> without a mysql-server package. (Providing it as a virtual package
> somewhere will not help.)

Somehow I think this is actually good. New installs will be using
MariaDB but upgrades of old ones would not need to change unless the
admin does an intentional action to upgrade. Note that the exact
reason why we have separate mysql-server and mysql-server-5.5 packages
is to help admins avoid that a dist-upgrade would migrate their
database to a new major version.