Ubuntu always ship fucked up, broken, shitty MySQL versions.
Look at the one that is current HEAD on 10.04 LTS. It's got so much broken stuff in it, we had to move everything to a spare windows machine where we could stick a later version on without screwing up the machine (DBs for: team city, jira, crucible).
Why migrate to a completely different environment? I'd recommend just installing some version of percona server (mySQL flavour) instead. You get both better software and upstream version instead of a repackaged one.
It is but they've fixed it in MySQL and Ubuntu have pinned the HEAD mysql build to the broken one and have pretty much stopped supporting it. LTS my arse.
Ubuntu always ship fucked up, broken, shitty MySQL versions.
Look at the one that is current HEAD on 10.04 LTS. It's got so much broken stuff in it, we had to move everything to a spare windows machine where we could stick a later version on without screwing up the machine (DBs for: team city, jira, crucible).