Hi, Op Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:19:36PM +0100 schreef Holger Levsen: > Hi Santiago, > > On Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2015, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > > mysql-client and mysql-server are empty packages that depends on the > > actual client and server packages. We needed to bump them, or to be more > > precise, to not drop them from the mysql-5.5 source package, so they can > > depend on the mysql-*-5.1 OR mysql-*-5.5 packages. > > ah. the "OR mysql-*5.1" part got lost. > > > Package: mysql-server > > Source: mysql-5.5 > > Version: 5.5.46-0+deb6u1 > > ... > > Depends: mysql-server-5.1 | mysql-server-5.5 > > leaving this quote here for the benefit of some people bcc:ed ;-) > > > So the mysql server and client shall not be upgraded automatically. Indeed "Please note that a dist-upgrade will not consider these MySQL 5.5 packages automatically". > > Sorry if the DLA is not clear enough about this. > > I've just re-read the DLA again and indeed the only time it speaks about 5.1 > is about it probably suffering vulnerabilities. The DLA totally omits the OR- > relationship and it's consequences. > > I'm not sure this demands an update of the DLA, but I certainly think it would > justify one. Let's see how much more feedback this gets and let's keep this in > mind for future DLAs about similar upgrades. FWIW, I don't think the DLA needs an update. It clearly gives the right instructions: "apt-get install mysql-server-5.5" or "apt-get install mysql-client-5.5". Indeed, output people get from their apt run might be misleading. However, I don't think a DLA is the place to explain the details of that. > And for those following at home: do upgrade to 5.5! Yup. Thanks, Bye, Joost -- "This particular group of cats is mostly self-herding." -- Bdale Garbee
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