Package: mysql-server Version: 5.7.17-1 Severity: normal When upgrading from mysql-server 5.6 to 5.7 the installer stopped because /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d didn't exist
After I manually added the directory and ran apt-get install the upgrade completed -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (870, 'stable'), (860, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mysql-server depends on: ii mysql-server-5.7 5.7.17-1 mysql-server recommends no packages. mysql-server suggests no packages. -- no debconf information