Comment 7 for bug 1605493

Actually, it should be pretty feasible to do, as the MariaDB 5.5. packages in Debian and Ubuntu (which stem from the same official Debian packaging) have been previously tested to be compatible with the legacy packaging used by upstream MariaDB.org, so that it is easy for people to upgrade from legacy packaging to the official and correct packaging done Debian Developers and released at Debian repositories.