Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal MySQL update breaks MariaDB

[Dougie Lawson]

There's a recently issued security update for MySQL to updates libmysqlclient18 mysql-common from V5.5.28 to V5.5.29

Any attempt to install that caused MariaDB to be removed from my system.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libmariadbclient18 mariadb-client mariadb-client-5.5 mariadb-client-core-5.5
  mariadb-server mariadb-server-5.5 mariadb-server-core-5.5
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libmysqlclient18 mysql-common
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 100 MB disk space will be freed.
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I've fixed it for the moment by using aptitude forbid-version libmysqlclient18=5.5.29 and aptitude forbid-version mysql-common=5.5.29

There's also no repo available for Quantal, I'm still using the MariaDB repo for Precise.

Machine is Viglen MPC-L running Quantal with a 3.2.0-35-generic #55-Ubuntu SMP kernel.

[Giacomo Orlandi (giaco-orlandi)]

This affected me too, but I have the impression that this is a totally different package.
This is not Maria DB, but "maria: reachability analyzer for Algebraic System Nets".
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/maria

Here is the instructions to report a bug on Maria DB:
https://kb.askmonty.org/en/reporting-bugs/

[Giacomo Orlandi (giaco-orlandi)]

Actually there are already 2 bugs open, probably one is a duplicate, and a discussion abou it.
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-4079
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-3882
https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg00699.html

This bug should be closed as invalid...

Thanks,

Giacomo