[debian-mysql] Groping for a roadmap in the dark

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Nicholas Bamber
<nicholas at periapt.co.uk> wrote:
> Thirdly postgresql and mysql do things differently and in a fundamental
> way. It seems clear to me, that in so far as software should behave
> consistently, one of them must be wrong. It is just not clear which one
> is wrong - or even that there is a right or wrong answer to that! That
> just takes us back to #535577.

Have we had bug reports from users complaining their databases weren't
deleted on purge? Do we expect any such reports in the future? What's
the 'damage' in this case.
We have had several reports from users complaining their databases
were deleted. In this case, 'damage' can be big.

> 4m56.3s ERROR: FAIL: Package purging left files on system:^M
>  /etc/mysql     owned by: mysql-common, mysql-server-5.5^M
>  /etc/mysql/debian.cnf  not owned^M

Not bad! So /etc/mysql/debian.cnf is the only real issue?

-- 
Olaf