[debian-mysql] can package install scripts rely on debian-sys-maint?

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

I have a simple question that I was not able to find an authoritative
answer on the web. And beware, I am not the maintainer of
dbconfig-common, but try to help.

dbconfig-common is used by a lot of packages to handle database and user
creation during postinst and removal during postrm. However,
dbconfig-common requests every time the root password to be able to
operate which is the cause for a lot of failures during installation as
admins don't always have the password ready.

Would it make sense and is it allowed from your side to use the
debian-sys-maint user for this purpose? If not, would it make sense to
create such a system wide user similar to debian-sys-maint? What is the
mysql-maint opinion on how packages should handle creation of users and
databases?

Please cc me on reply.

Paul

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