Comments - Upgrading 5.3 to 5.5 in Debian Squeeze
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Might you try an apt-get update then an ugprade? I think you need to let it know to update the trees as well. Did you do any package pinning?
I did perform an apt-get upgrade (see message above) and I did try an update with the same results. The only pinning I had was mysql-common to origin ftp.osuosl.org as this package was conflicting with dotdeb.org.
I've done quite a bit more research and found that libmysqlclient18 was conflicting with dotdeb.org as well. I don't know why these conflicts are happening with dotdeb.org and I don't know enough about apt to begin to hazard a guess.
I ended up trying to install on a fresh install of debian and got it to work there but I could not install it using mariadb-server. I had to specify mariadb-server-5.5.
So on my production server, I removed the package mariadb-server and pinned the mariadb repository higher than dotdeb and was able to upgrade to 5.5 without a problem.