On 2016-09-22, Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> wrote: > On 22/09/16 16:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:02:37PM +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>>>>>> Running Jessie here. Performed apt-get upgrade yesterday, which included >>>>>>> a new version of mysql. >> >>> It turns out that the recent upgrade took mysql from 5.5 to 5.6. It >>> uninstalled mysql-server-5.5, but failed to install mysql-server-5.6, >>> due to an unmet dependency on mysql-server-core-5.6. >> >> Sounds like you're getting mysql-server from jessie-backports instead >> of jessie. On a pure jessie system, it is still 5.5. >> > > Yes, I am.
If you install the mysql-server metapackage from backports then the server upgrade will be handled correctly in future. -- Liam