Transition Mysql 5.0 to 5.1 in main

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:21:42AM -0400, Mathias Gug wrote:
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libmysqlclient16
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   mysql-server
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   mysql-common
> 1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2027kB of archives.
> After this operation, 4502kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.

> mathiaz at t-mysql-up:~$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
[...]
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libmysqlclient16 mysql-client-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server-5.1
>   mysql-server-core-5.1
> Suggested packages:
>   tinyca
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 mysql-server-core-5.0
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libmysqlclient16 mysql-client-5.1 mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   mysql-common mysql-server
> 2 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 21.2MB of archives.
> After this operation, 60.7MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I wonder if mysql-client-5.0 has anything to do with this?  What is it that
forces the removal of client on upgrade here?

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