[debian-mysql] Bug#842011: default-mysql-client forces removal of mysql-server* and mysql-client*

[Craig Sanders]

Package: default-mysql-client
Version: 1.0.0

it's somewhat surprising that a package called default-mysql-client should
force the removal of both mysql-client and mysql-server packages.

mariadb is NOT a drop-in replacement for mysql.


# apt-get -d -u install default-mysql-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 default-mysql-client : Depends: mariadb-client-10.0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


# apt-get -V -d -u install default-mysql-client mariadb-client-10.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
   mariadb-client-core-10.0 (10.0.27-2)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   mysql-client (5.7.15-1)
   mysql-client-5.7 (5.7.15-1)
   mysql-client-core-5.7 (5.7.15-1)
   mysql-server (5.7.15-1)
   mysql-server-5.7 (5.7.15-1)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   default-mysql-client (1.0.0)
   mariadb-client-10.0 (10.0.27-2)
   mariadb-client-core-10.0 (10.0.27-2)
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 5 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,700 kB of archives.
After this operation, 69.5 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>