[Bug 1528583] Re: [FFe] Please update to MySQL 5.7 series

Robie Basak 1528583 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Mar 8 18:00:48 UTC 2016


I've uploaded an initial cut of the proposed 5.7 packaging to our PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~mysql-ubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/mysql-5.7/+packages
and my current work tree (still being rebased) is available at
https://git.launchpad.net/~racb/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/log/?h=5.7v5ubuntu_dev2

I'd appreciate anyone who can test these packages to help inform the
release team about the regression risk for this FFe.

Here are my thoughts on what will be valuable to test and what probably
doesn't need testing.

What doesn't need testing first. This is about the packaging. We
generally trust upstream's QA process for MySQL itself as they have a
good track record on this. So once MySQL is running, we expect it to
work. So no need to test in detail that MySQL is functioning as
expected, expect where functionality interacts with packaging. Testing
that mysql-files and mysql-keyring are working is good, as is that
plugins work, since that interacts with how we ship the files. Testing
the functionality of the SELECT statement probably isn't, since that's a
core thing that is unlikely to be regressed by packaging.

Note that migrating from MariaDB to MySQL is not expected to work
currently unless you manage this process manually yourself.

Next, specific paths to test. We want to check that the package works
both when installed freshly on Xenial and also when upgrading from
Trusty or Wily. Other things that could influence success are how the
user installed on the previous release (eg. which packages were
installed and whether and how configuration files in /etc were changed -
see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813413 for an
example of a failure case in this area; this one is known to not be
fixed yet as we don't have a good answer).

Previous upgrade paths might also change behaviour - that is, the state
of /var/lib/mysql as it ended up by use of previous MySQL packaging
releases.

If you can help out with testing, please report back in this bug
detailing exactly what you tested and what your results are. Please
report both success and failure. Thanks!

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #813413
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813413

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