Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> writes: > Tags: unreproducible > > 2017-01-25 0:21 GMT+02:00 Julian Gilbey <j...@debian.org>: >> After upgrading to 10.1 from 10.0, I purged the old >> mariadb-server-10.0 package, but this had two quite unpleasant >> effects: it shut down the server and it removed the init.d links. >> This is because: > > I was not able to reproduce this. The 10.1 packages conflict the 10.0 > packages, so it is not possible to have them installed at the same > time, and thus end up in a situation where you would remove the 10.0 > packages while 10.1 is already installed.
Note the wording "purge". I'm guessing that the 10.0 package was removed (but not purged). And that a later purge step of the already-removed package caused the observed behaviour. So to try to reproduce you could just apt-get remove mariadb-server-10.0 (or apt-get install mariadb-server 10.1 without --purge option). And then afterwards try apt-get purge mariadb-server-10.0. - Kristian.
