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

[Lars Tangvald]

On 03/15/2017 09:01 AM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> 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 ?
When I did a quick test, I just replaced jessie with stretch in 
/etc/apt/sources.list, ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade

--
Lars
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