[debian-mysql] Bug#917872: Automatically uninstall/reinstall Mroonga plugin on upgrade

[Otto Kekäläinen]

Hello!

> > The postinst of Mroong install is, and the postrm uninstalls it
> > correctly. There is however no code that would on a
> > postinst/preinst/upgrade scenario reinstall the plugin if the path has
> > changed (eg. as it does on in MariaDB 10.3 when the soname path
> > updates from libmariadb18 to libmaridb19).
>
> Just out of curiosity, what is the best way to detect
> soname path updates in maintainer script?
> If there is a similar package which treats this kind of issue, I want to know.

I don't know, unfortunately.

You can try if you find any examples via
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