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

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Julian (and anybody else reading this bugreport),

I have a testing versions ready here: https://packages.sury.org/mariadb/
 The repository provides updated package for jessie and updated package
for stretch.

I have tested it in a clean system in all ways I could imagine, and it
looks to me it works very well, but I would really appreciate if
somebody else could test this as well.

Cheers,
-- 
Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
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On Sun, Mar 26, 2017, at 15:18, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> I am looking into the jessie->stretch updates and I think we can make
> this simpler without mangling other packages' maintscripts.
> 
> mariadb-10.0 gets updates (via security/release team), so we can just
> update the mariadb-10.0 postinst script for jessie package.
> 
> Same needs to be done for: mysql-5.5 and anything else currently present
> in jessie-backports (mysql-5.6 would be problematic, since it doesn't
> exist in the unstable anymore).
> 
> After stretch release, I think that each package should provide it's
> version specific init scripts. It's easy to add Alias in the systemd
> unit, and I am sure we can think of something similar for sysvrc
> (something like update-alternatives might possibly work).
> 
> Would you be willing to help me clean your patches to not include the
> other packages' maintscripts mangling?
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>
> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server
> Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware,
> fast DNS(SEC) resolver
> Vše pro chleba (https://vseprochleba.cz) – Mouky ze mlýna a potřeby pro
> pečení chleba všeho druhu
>