Comment 6 for bug 1077740

On 13 November 2012 21:40, v1nce <email address hidden> wrote:
> I don't agree. I don't know if this is because of french translation but the text is clearly misleading to me.
>
> mysql-server-5.5: ...
> Depends: mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.24-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) mais la version 5.5.28-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 est installée
>
> can be read (by me) as
>
> You try to update(*) mysql-server-5.5. To do this, you need to install
> first mysql-client-5.5 in a version that is above 5.5.24... but (you
> can't do it because) version 5.5.28... is (already) installed.
>
> So (for me) it reads as the apt doesn't understand that 5.5.28 > 5.5.24.

You are right, I didn't read the version numbers well enough.

It does seem that apt is confused about the first few, the only
dependency that is a problem is mysql-server-core-5.5.