[debian-mysql] Bug#852495: Bug#852495: Bug#852495: Bug#852495: mariadb-server-10.[01]: purging old mariadb-server shuts down mariadb-server and removes init.d links

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Thanks Julian, you've done a very thorough job in producing and
documenting the patch.

In future, if you send a patch, please do it as public git branches so
I can easily pull (and you can easily rebase when the target repo
updates). Or alternatively you can send patches on Github as pull
requests.
Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-mysql/mariadb-10.1.git/
(mirror https://github.com/ottok/mariadb-10.1)

I am a bit afraid of applying this patch, as we are quite late in the
release cycle, and I already did this week extensive jessie->stretch
tests this week and I didn't come across any issues. Applying new
patches to the maintainer scripts seems a bit risky as there could be
some severe unintentional regressions. Also, because doing so much
testing I am quite worn out right now and afraid of making mistakes
simply because of being tired.

Is there anybody on the pkg-maint-mysql team that could step in here,
review the patch as such, and maybe even apply it on a test branch,
build, and do some testing?