[debian-mysql] About removing /var/lib/mysql on purge

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Stewart Smith
<stewart at flamingspork.com> wrote:
>> Would somebody else maybe want to take a try to come up with a solution?
>
> Hrm... what does PostgreSQL do? Does removing apache remove /var/www ?
>
> I can imagine if --purge removed /var/lib/mysql we'd get bug reports
> about all of their data being gone....

I'd just ignore /var/lib/mysql and perhaps add a piuparts exception.


-- 
Olaf