[debian-mysql] Redesigning the /var/lib/mysql/*.flag thing

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

Any responses to this? I haven't got any replies and it is a month
since I sent this.

2015-09-01 16:02 GMT+03:00 Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi>:
> Hello!
>
> Last year (e.g. in [1]) I proposed that a high priority for
> mysql/mariadb packaging would be to redesign the downgrade warning
> flag thing. I'd say it is the root cause of 80 % of the bug reports on
> Launchpad (see [2] and [3]).
>
> By far most users simply don't understand the warning and don't know
> how to recover from it. Also the whole idea is rediculus, as dpkg is
> not designed in any way to support aborting in the middle of
> preinstall scripts. Dpkg just ends up in a conflicting state that
> needs to be resolved with dpkg --configure -a (and sometimes that
> isn't even enough).
>
> Also none of the graphical tools in Ubuntu support the dpkg abort
> process in any sensible way.
>
> Please send in ideas on how to redesign it.
>
> - Otto
>
> [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/2014-November/007237.html
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mariadb-5.5/+bug/1457356
> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mariadb-10.0/+bug/1490190



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