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

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

>> 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 transition is supposed to be automatic already. Apparently it
didn't quite work in your setup. Can you please describe your setup in
details so that I can try to reproduce your upgrade and see how the
packages interact? What packages did you have installed in Jessie?
What repositories did you have enabled in Jessie? How did you upgrade,
what repositories where enabled during the upgrade when you ran
apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade? How do you know if mysql was
or was not running after the upgrade, did you check with ps if you
have any mysqld processes at all? Was there some errors in syslog or
/var/log/mysql ?