[debian-mysql] Bug#944412: mariadb-server: Installation of mariadb-server metapackage fails due to unmet dependencies

0x6d61726b 0x6d61726b at gmail.com
Sat Nov 9 14:42:28 GMT 2019


Package: mariadb-server
Severity: important

* What led up to the situation?

Dear Maintainer,
while trying to install mariadb-server metapackage the installation failed due to unmet dependencies. The package was not installed before.


* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?

root at foo ~ # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

root at foo ~ # apt-get install mariadb-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mariadb-server : Depends: mariadb-server-10.3 (>= 1:10.3.17-0+deb10u1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root at foo ~ #


* What was the outcome of this action?

The package mariadb-server was not installed (installation was cancelled) due to the error above.


* What outcome did you expect instead?

I did expect that the mariadb-server package has been installed successfully.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mariadb-server depends on:
pn  mariadb-server-10.3  <none>

mariadb-server recommends no packages.

mariadb-server suggests no packages.



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