[debian-mysql] mysql-transitional version in stretch

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-05-31 14:25, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> as the sole goal of mysql-transitional is to prevent upgrades from
> jessie to be left without any mysqld provider installed, I don't think
> this matters much as this applies only to systems without any other
> package depending on default-mysql-server, and not updated for a very
> long time.
> 
> As such I think this is really an edge case we don't have to cover.

The stretch announcement said

    In "Stretch", the default MySQL variant is now MariaDB. The
    replacement of packages for MySQL 5.5 or 5.6 by the MariaDB 10.1
    variant will happen automatically upon upgrade.

Let's see if someone hits this corner case ...


Andreas