LP #1590695: percona-server-common-5.7 depends on mysql-common 5.5 on Debian Jessie
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Julia Vural March 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It appears that this issue is no longer being worked on, so we are closing it for housekeeping purposes. If you believe the issue still exists, please open a new ticket after confirming it's present in the latest release.

Lalit Choudhary September 7, 2018 at 2:47 PM
Hi Ceri,
Thank you for the report.
Validated as described.
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Tested on ubuntu 18.04
:~$ sudo apt-cache show percona-server-common-5.7
[sudo] password for lalit:
Package: percona-server-common-5.7
Source: percona-server-5.7
Version: 5.7.22-22-1.bionic
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Percona Server Development Team <mysql-dev@percona.com>
Installed-Size: 2725
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17), mysql-common, debsums
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/
Priority: extra
Section: database
Filename: pool/main/p/percona-server-5.7/percona-server-common-5.7_5.7.22-22-1.bionic_amd64.deb
Size: 210948
SHA256: 8ed6be4745afe6fd5276d10ef3128467a07dc403e39665dde03771a48fa93be4
SHA1: 0dd91ffaeebcba719480f73997bc460a201c8167
MD5sum: 57dad105ff84ea3e0d0d67c1b91bd498
Description: Percona Server database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)
Percona Server is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL
database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database
query language in the world. The main goals of Percona Server are speed,
robustness and ease of use.
.
This package includes files needed by all versions of the client library
(e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf).
Description-md5: 8afef95dbdee961f280711f9d035c95f
:~$ dpkg -l mysql-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-===================================-======================-======================-============================================================================
ii mysql-common 5.8+1.0.4 all MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf
~$
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Created January 24, 2018 at 9:40 AM
Updated March 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Resolved March 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
**Reported in Launchpad by Ceri WIlliams last update 10-06-2016 07:34:28
$ apt-cache show percona-server-common-5.7
Package: percona-server-common-5.7
Source: percona-server-5.7
Version: 5.7.12-5-1.jessie
Architecture: amd64
Maintainer: Percona Server Development Team <mysql-dev@percona.com>
Installed-Size: 2645
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.2.17)
Depends: mysql-common
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/
Priority: extra
Section: database
Filename: pool/main/p/percona-server-5.7/percona-server-common-5.7_5.7.12-5-1.jessie_amd64.deb
Size: 206686
SHA256: 9b09fe5d2a5edb877632a0d2e23dbc6d8658b6b38fa061e87ae5007aeaea1e53
SHA1: 590cf343fc111346d7d2a11b142647592a82a496
MD5sum: 4b27e3b3d76583578ff8eeba116ca083
Description: Percona Server database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)
Percona Server is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL
database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database
query language in the world. The main goals of Percona Server are speed,
robustness and ease of use.
.
This package includes files needed by all versions of the client library
(e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf).
Description-md5: 8afef95dbdee961f280711f9d035c95f
$ dpkg -l mysql-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++===================================================================================================================================================
ii mysql-common 5.5.44-0+deb8u1 all MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf