[debian-mysql] Bug#857444: Bug#857444: mysql-server-5.5: upgrade from jessie to stretch leaves mysql server uninstalled

[Gabriel Filion]

Lars Tangvald:
> 
> ----- gabster at lelutin.ca wrote:
> 
>> Ugh, I fail at reportbug again :(
>>
>> real sorry about the initial report.
>>
>> here's the real description of the problem:
>>
>>
>> when upgrading from jessie to stretch, the upgrade goes through
>> without
>> an error but the end result is that mysql-server-5.5 gets removed and
>> mysql is not running anymore.
>>
>> stretch is supposed to push ppl towards mariadb according to the
>> (still
>> work in progress) release notes, however mariadb doesn't get
>> installed.
>>
>> There is no mysql-server, mysql-server-* or mysql-client-* packages
>> in
>> stretch so I believe this to be the source of the issue.
>>
>> One can fix the problem either by adding default-mysql-server before
>> upgrading or after. however this poses a problem:
>>
>>  * before the upgrade, the default-mysql-server package is only
>> available in jessie-backports
>>  * after the upgrade, you've gotten no notice at all about what's
>> happening and why the mysql server is not running and not upgraded.
>>
>> One way to make this an easier transition would be to have a
>> mysql-server package in stretch that's a dummy package that depends
>> on
>> default-mysql-server, and that has an upgrade notice about the
>> transition to mariadb that is happening.
>>
>>
> The mysql package names should be reserved for actual mysql packages (default-mysql, virtual-mysql etc. are named so because there isn't a better term for "mysql-ish"). While the current situation with mysql being half-uninstalled is pretty odd, we shouldn't automatically replace mysql-server with mariadb-server, as it can cause problems for users who want to keep using mysql, while those who are fine with either just need to install mariadb after the upgrade.

This sounds reasonable, but there are currently lots of mysql-* packages
missing from stretch.

I can currently only see mysql-common, mysql-sandbox, mysql-utilities,
mysql-workbench{,-data}, mysqltcl, mysqltuner.

there are neither packages for client nor server.

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