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

[Norvald H. Ryeng]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 21:13:47 +0100, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> wrote:

> 2014-11-26 13:41 GMT+02:00 Norvald H. Ryeng <norvald.ryeng at oracle.com>:
>> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:21:37 +0100, Bjoern Boschman <bjoern at boschman.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> /var/www does not belong to apache.
>>> /var/lib/mysql does only belong to mysql
>>>
>>> some pkgs like slapd asks you during installation if the database
>>> files shall remain during purge, so It can be made configurable?
>>
>>
>> In our own deb packages, we ask the user on purge.
>
> I just checked, mariadb-server-10.0.postrm and mysql-server-5.6.postrm
> in Debian packaging git repos are identical.
>
> Do you mean some packaging at Oracle that is not used in Debian yet?

I mean the deb packages we make to put on
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ and in our own apt repos. They're
slightly different than those in Debian/Ubuntu, but we're trying to keep  
them as similar as possible.

> By the way, where is to upstream Oracle repo for mysql development
> nowadays? Have you already migrated to git? The repos
> https://code.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/5.7 and
> https://code.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/5.6 don't have any
> recent commits.

The launchpad bzr repos are up-to-date as of the previous release. I guess  
they'll never be updated again since we've moved to git now.

The git repo is published at https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server.

Regards,

Norvald