[debian-mysql] Bug#918988: Bug#918988: Maybe I can help with this issue

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

> Downgrading the package is not working anymore - it was a dirty
> workaround for about two months:
> apt-get install libmariadbclient18=10.1.26-0+deb9u1
> apt-mark hold libmariadbclient18

Maybe because the problem is not in that package, but some other
binary in the chain of what Apache/Nginx/PHP uses or has been built
with?

> Removing of libmysqlclient18 would also remove php5-mysql* which is not
> what I want.

Do you have some custom PHP installation?

I don't see any such package in Stretch:

root at d6b6aa0e9494:/build# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"

root at d6b6aa0e9494:/build# apt-get install php5-mysql
Package php5-mysql is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'php5-mysql' has no installation candidate



Please provide me with some steps on how to reproduce the bug.
The steps can for example start with:
  docker run -it debian:stretch bash
  apt-get update
  apt-get instal ....