While trying to clear old dormant bugs I came by this one. All that was said before is still true and probably could be fixed.
But it never got really important - which it would have if it would be more common to happen :-/ By now upgrades from Trusty (last 5.6) are unlikely as even the successor LTS Xenial is now in in the extended support phase and unlikely to get an SRU for it nowadays. Missed the chance to fix this in time :-/ But from today's POV this have become a Won't fix ** Changed in: mysql-5.7 (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1809486 Title: mysql-server-5.7 overwrites a file from mysql-client-5.6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mysql-5.7/+bug/1809486/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs