Package: mysql-server Version: 5.5.53-0+deb8u1 Severity: important Hello,
I'm trying to upgrade from jessie to stretch and I'm getting blocked on the mysql upgrade from 5.5 to 5.6 During the upgrade I get this error message: dpkg: mysql-client-5.5: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: mysql-server-5.5 depends on mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.53-0+deb8u1). (Reading database ... 50345 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mysql-client-5.5 (5.5.53-0+deb8u1) ... Selecting previously unselected package mysql-client-core-5.6. (Reading database ... 50290 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../0-mysql-client-core-5.6_5.6.30-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mysql-client-core-5.6 (5.6.30-1) ... Selecting previously unselected package mysql-client-5.6. Preparing to unpack .../1-mysql-client-5.6_5.6.30-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mysql-client-5.6 (5.6.30-1) ... dpkg: mysql-server-core-5.5: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: mysql-server-5.5 depends on mysql-server-core-5.5 (>= 5.5.53-0+deb8u1); however: Package mysql-server-core-5.5 is to be removed. (Reading database ... 50351 files and directories currently installed.) Removing mysql-server-core-5.5 (5.5.53-0+deb8u1) ... Selecting previously unselected package mysql-server-core-5.6. (Reading database ... 50262 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../mysql-server-core-5.6_5.6.30-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking mysql-server-core-5.6 (5.6.30-1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-core-5.6_5.6.30-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/innochecksum.1.gz', which is also in package mysql-server-5.5 5.5.53-0+deb8u1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-core-5.6_5.6.30-1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Because of the previous error messages, there seems to be either a dependency/breaks issue or something that's not happening right during removal of mysql-server-core-5.5 A workaround is to apt remove mysql-server-5.5, then apt install mysql-server-5.6 I've set this to priority Important since the upgrade path from jessie to stretch is broken because of this. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_CA.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages mysql-server depends on: ii mysql-server-5.5 5.5.53-0+deb8u1 mysql-server recommends no packages. mysql-server suggests no packages. -- no debconf information