Elena Stepanova added a comment - 2012-06-13 02:03 Re: Debian package should Provides/Conflicts/Replaces with the mysql ones Hi, What exactly was the order of your installation, i.e. what were you installing on top of what? I am not getting the same error installing either mariadb-server-5.2 over mysql-server-5.1, or libmariadbclient16 over mysql-server-5.1. mariadb-server-5.2 over mysql-server-5.1: The following extra packages will be installed: libmariadbclient16 libmysqlclient16 mariadb-client-5.2 mariadb-client-core-5.2 mariadb-server-core-5.2 mysql-common Suggested packages: tinyca mariadb-test The following packages will be REMOVED: mysql-client-5.1 mysql-server-5.1 mysql-server-core-5.1 The following NEW packages will be installed: libmariadbclient16 mariadb-client-5.2 mariadb-client-core-5.2 mariadb-server-5.2 mariadb-server-core-5.2 The following packages will be upgraded: libmysqlclient16 mysql-common 2 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded. libmariadbclient16 (from 5.2 repository) over mysql-server-5.1: The following extra packages will be installed: libmysqlclient16 mysql-common The following NEW packages will be installed: libmariadbclient16 The following packages will be upgraded: libmysqlclient16 mysql-common 2 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,479 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,270 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n] ? y Get:1 http://mirrors.supportex.net/mariadb/repo/5.2/debian/ squeeze/main mysql-common all 5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze [10.6 kB] Get:2 http://mirrors.supportex.net/mariadb/repo/5.2/debian/ squeeze/main libmysqlclient16 amd64 5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze [4,316 B] Get:3 http://mirrors.supportex.net/mariadb/repo/5.2/debian/ squeeze/main libmariadbclient16 amd64 5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze [1,464 kB] Fetched 1,479 kB in 0s (2,023 kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 129785 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mysql-common 5.1.61-0+squeeze1 (using .../mysql-common_5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mysql-common ... Preparing to replace libmysqlclient16 5.1.61-0+squeeze1 (using .../libmysqlclient16_5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libmysqlclient16 ... Selecting previously deselected package libmariadbclient16. Unpacking libmariadbclient16 (from .../libmariadbclient16_5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze_amd64.deb) ... Setting up mysql-common (5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze) ... Installing new version of config file /etc/mysql/my.cnf ... Setting up libmysqlclient16 (5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze) ... Setting up libmariadbclient16 (5.2.12-mariadb115~squeeze) ... In both cases the process finishes successfully.

Rasmus Johansson added a comment - 2012-06-22 20:35 Launchpad bug id: 1005841