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mysql-5.7 package

  1. Bug #1490071
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1490071

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Robie Basak (racb) wrote : Re: [Bug 1490071] Re: MySQL 5.5/5.6 detects /var/lib/mysql/*.flag file and aborts installation

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 01:38:26PM -0000, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> The bug is about the user experience: how users are notified what
> happens and how dpkg is aborted into a broken state.

I disagree. I'm treating this bug as tracking the fact that it cannot be
done, whereas I have proposed a mechanism by which it could be done.

I don't think it's acceptable for a crossgrade from MySQL to MariaDB to
take place in a way that cannot be reversed by MariaDB effectively
clobbering the MySQL packaging's data files, when otherwise removing and
re-installing the MySQL packaging only with no MariaDB involved would
work.

It is certainly non-trivial to fix in a way that works for everybody,
and we will need to talk more about how we can resolve this, but that
doesn't stop the issue from existing.