[debian-mysql] Bug#914172: Bug#914172: mariadb-server-10.1: mariadb-server sec-update (10.1.37-0+deb9u1) uninstalls default-mysql-server, mysql-server, mariadb-server-10.1 & mariadb-client-10.1

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 8:45 AM Jeremy Davis <jeremy at turnkeylinux.org> wrote:
> As of the (automated) installation of today's MariaDB server security update (10.1.37-0+deb9u1)
> all of our user's LAMP based appliances uninstalled mariadb-server (i.e. default-mysql-server,
> mysql-server, mariadb-server-10.1 & mariadb-client-10.1) and thus most of web based software
> stopped functioning.

Ouch. IMO apt shouldn't be run in such a way that packages get removed
automatically though..

> We're still not sure exactly what caused this, but would like to note the issue.

Updated dependencies perhaps, in particular:

> * Add libconfig-inifiles-perl to mariadb-client-10.1 depends to fix mytop

Note this is just a guess.

Gr,

Olaf