Triage report (2020-07-30)

[Robie Basak]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 06:45:08PM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote:
> LP: #1889328 - *(New)     [mysql-8.0]      - package mysql-server-8.0
> 8.0.21-0ubuntu0.20.04.3 failed to install/upgrade: installed
> mysql-server-8.0 package pre-removal script subprocess returned error
> exit status 1
> 
> Yes, this is not bogus. TLDR, this break the mysql install:
> 
>   apt install mariadb-server
>   apt remove mariadb-server
>   apt install mysql-server
> 
> More details in my comment there. Tagged server-next.

This _may_ be considered a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1490071

The root cause may be a little different, but it's essentially the same
thing - packaging doesn't currently support swapping from MariaDB to
MySQL - but neither do the upstreams. We have discussed how this might
be worked around in packaging, but it is non-trivial to implement and
has never been prioritised.

I don't think server-next is warranted here. It's something that affects
people experimenting and doesn't affect servers in production. Nor is
MariaDB in main.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/attachments/20200730/673d3e5c/attachment.sig>