[debian-mysql] Bug#914172: 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

[Faustin Lammler]

Jeremy Davis <jeremy at turnkeylinux.org>,
21/11/2018 - 15:57:31 (+1100):

> I'll aim to provide as much relevant info as possible, if there is
> anything else you need please ask. Hopefully it's not too waffley and/or
> includes too much irrelevant info... (I'm often told that I need to turn
> verbosity down...)
Verbosity in bug reporting is super helpful IMO!

I have installed your appliance and the problem is the following option:
-o Dir::Etc::sourceparts=nonexistent

root at lamp ~# apt-get dist-upgrade -o APT::Get::Show-Upgraded=true \
	-o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/security.sources.list \
	-o DPkg::Options::=--force-confdef \
	-o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libconfig-inifiles-perl linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64
The following packages will be upgraded:
  adminer apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils base-files
  ca-certificates confconsole curl dehydrated dpkg file git git-core
  git-man gnupg gnupg-agent gpgv grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin
  grub2-common hdparm libapache2-mod-php7.0 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls
  libfuse2 libgnutls30 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common libmagic-mgc
  libmagic1 libmariadbclient18 libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal
  libpython2.7-stdlib libpython3.5-minimal libpython3.5-stdlib
  libseccomp2 libsystemd0 libudev1 linux-image-amd64 mariadb-client-10.1
  mariadb-client-core-10.1 mariadb-common mariadb-server-10.1
  mariadb-server-core-10.1 openssh-client openssh-server
  openssh-sftp-server php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json php7.0-mysql
  php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline php7.0-xml python2.7 python2.7-minimal
  python3.5 python3.5-minimal ssh systemd systemd-sysv tklbam tzdata
  udev
67 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 99.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 194 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

root at lamp ~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libconfig-inifiles-perl linux-image-4.9.0-8-amd64
The following packages will be upgraded:
  adminer apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils base-files
  ca-certificates confconsole curl dehydrated dpkg file git git-core
  git-man gnupg gnupg-agent gpgv grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin
  grub2-common hdparm libapache2-mod-php7.0 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls
  libfuse2 libgnutls30 libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common libmagic-mgc
  libmagic1 libmariadbclient18 libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal
  libpython2.7-stdlib libpython3.5-minimal libpython3.5-stdlib
  libseccomp2 libsystemd0 libudev1 linux-image-amd64 mariadb-client-10.1
  mariadb-client-core-10.1 mariadb-common mariadb-server-10.1
  mariadb-server-core-10.1 openssh-client openssh-server
  openssh-sftp-server php7.0-cli php7.0-common php7.0-json php7.0-mysql
  php7.0-opcache php7.0-readline php7.0-xml python2.7 python2.7-minimal
  python3.5 python3.5-minimal ssh systemd systemd-sysv tklbam tzdata
  udev
67 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 99.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 194 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

So there is no problem with this security upgrade.

May I suggest you to check why you use this option?
I can't find any relevant documentation...

If you find some useful information you want to add to this, please do
it and then please close this bug report.

Thanks again for your help!

Regards,
Faustin