Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Since the upload of mysql-5.6 mysql-5.5 is no longer installable in sid.
I am not the maintainer but just another interested user. In that
spirit I note that mysql-5.1 is no longer installable in Sid either.
Is that a bug? Isn't that simply the nature of Sid that things move
forward there leaving older versions behind?
The new mysql-server-5.5 5.5.43-0+deb8u1 Pre-Depends mysql-common (>=
5.5.43-0+deb8u1) and mysql-common in sid has been replaced.
Installing 5.5 will require a DOWNGRADE of mysql-common and therefore
must be specified explicitly. One can install 5.5 by explicitly
installing the previous version this way:
apt-get install mysql-server-5.5 mysql-common=5.5.43-0+deb8u1
However that depends upon the availability of mysql-common version
5.5.43-0+deb8u1 which will need to be pulled from either Testing
(while available there) or snapshot.debian.org. On my Sid machine
today I see this:
# apt-cache policy mysql-common
mysql-common:
Installed: 5.6.25-2
Candidate: 5.6.25-2
Version table:
*** 5.6.25-2 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.5.43-0+deb8u1 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Packages
To help with transitions in Sid it is a best practice to include
Testing in the sources.list file for these and other cases. However
anything older will need snapshot.debian.org for retrieval.
Bob
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