Misleading reference to /etc/mysql/my.cnf in Debian packages description

[Willem de Groot]

Regression: the last version of percona-server-common-5.5 (1:5.5.33-rel31.1-568.precise) does not include an /etc/mysql/my.cnf anymore.

# dpkg -l percona-server-common-5.5
ii percona-server-common-5.5 1:5.5.33-rel31.1-568.precise Percona Server database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)

# dpkg -L percona-server-common-5.5
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/percona-server-common-5.5
/usr/share/doc/percona-server-common-5.5/copyright
/usr/share/doc/percona-server-common-5.5/changelog.Debian.gz
/etc
/etc/mysql
/etc/mysql/conf.d

Can't test for previous versions as those deb files are purged from the Percona repo, but I believe it was working with last week's version.

[Valerii Kravchuk (valerii-kravchuk)]

Same with 5.6:

openxs@ao756:~$ sudo dpkg -L percona-server-common-5.6
[sudo] password for openxs:
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/percona-server-common-5.6
/usr/share/doc/percona-server-common-5.6/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/percona-server-common-5.6/copyright
openxs@ao756:~$ sudo dpkg -l percona-server-common-5.6 | more
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 percona-server-common-5.6 1:5.6.13-rel61.0-461.raring
     amd64 Percona Server database common files (e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf)

[Alexey Kopytov (akopytov)]

PS 5.5 has never provided a default my.cnf file. MySQL / PS 5.6 do provide it, but it's not packaged as /etc/mysql/my.cnf. See bug #673844.

[Willem de Groot (gwillem)]

I see that the main reason is compatibility with the official mysql packages.

Perhaps then the package description should not mention a file that it doesn't provide.

[Willem de Groot (gwillem)]

BTW thanks for maintaining the free version of Percona!

[Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar)]

Percona now uses JIRA for bug reports so this bug report is migrated to: https://jira.percona.com/browse/PS-2046