Re: FIXED: Latest mysql upgrade (5.5.53-0+deb8u1) causes Akonadi to fail to start

[Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>]

Hi Sandro,

Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2016, 12:52:58 CET schrieb Sandro Knauß:
> > I am using Akonadi with MariaDB since quite a while.
> 
> @martin: please keep in mind, that this issue with mysql-server is a
> problem  at Debian stable. As I know you are using unstable (KF5 based
> kdepim). Promoting to switch to MaraDB should mention, that you havn't
> tested this switch for stable. <- Or did you test this on stable too?
> 
> Never the less you are right about promoting the switch- also upstream 
> suggests to switch to MariaDB for current kdepim (KF5 based).

I missed that this was about stable, sorry.

I think I tried to test it back then, but I think it doesn´t even work 
dependency-wise.

Yep, depends on mysql:

https://packages.debian.org/jessie/akonadi-backend-mysql

Ciao,
-- 
Martin