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

[Akhil Mohan]

On Thursday 27 November 2014 01:43 AM, Otto Kekäläinen 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?
>
> 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.
Here is Oracle MySQL on git https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server.

If you are interested in receiving packaging source I would suggest to
directly configure the MySQL repos using our configuration packages
available at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/repo/apt/ and then use
'apt-get source' for your further investigation.
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