*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1490071 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1490071

My issue and fix: my /var/lib/mysql is in another location and the
/var/lib/mysql is a softlink.

delete /var/lib/mysql-upgrade/DATADIR.link before doing the upgrade and
then I had no issue upgrading to 5.7

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Title:
  package mysql-server-5.7 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade:
  subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

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