[debian-mysql] Bug#671115: Bug#671115: transition: mysql-5.5

[Nicholas Bamber]

That should be trivial. We need only remove all the other binary 
stanzas, right?

On 21/05/12 20:21, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:34:16 -0700, Clint Byrum wrote:
>
>> mysql-common>>  5.5 will break 5.1 because there are new configuration
>> options used in /etc/mysql/my.cnf that will *break* mysql 5.1, as in,
>> it will refuse to run, libmysqlclient will throw errors, etc. This is
>> an unfortunate, but necessary evil.
>>
>> We can upload a version of 5.1 that has no mysql-server, mysql-client,
>> or mysql-testsuite packages, and also that depends on a mysql-common-5.1
>> which breaks/replaces mysql-common<<  ${binary:Version}, and conflicts
>> with mysql-common>>  ${binary:Version}, so that everything remains
>> installable during the transition. mysql-common in 5.5 would also then
>> need a Breaks/Replaces of that package to handle upgrades properly.
>>
> I'd rather see a new mysql-5.1 upload that builds *only*
> libmysqlclient16.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>
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