[debian-mysql] Bug#797210: mariadb-10.0: mariadb-server does not ship a debconf set for creating a adminitrative user (like mysql-server do)

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2016-01-26 12:38 GMT+02:00 Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert at t-online.de>:
>> I skimmed through
>> https://people.debian.org/~seanius/policy/dbconfig-common.html/ but
>> didn't really get the hang of it. The docs are written for "consumers"
>> and not "providers" like the mariadb-10.0 package maintainers would
>> need to read about.
>
> I don't get this point, what do you mean between consumer and provider?
> As a package maintainer you need to ensure thet the user who is installing
> your package is guided through the installation so the package is
> completely configured and running after the installation.

I mean the docs linked above is meant for people installing packages
(consuming them). I don't find it helpful for myself as the package
producer. The docs don't tell me how a database must be packaged to be
compatible with dbconfig. Or maybe they do somewhere but I don't get
it. Maybe reading some example code from somewhere or seeing a
copy-paste of them the installer fails would help here.

I will not close this bug just yet. I am interested in getting
mariadb-server compatible with dbconfig - I just have no idea how to
do it as I don't understand how dbconfig works.

If the fix is obivious to somebody else, having this issue open and
waiting for somebody to send a patch in would server a cause.