[debian-mysql] Bug#1029136: MariaDB configuration files not properly migrated on switch to unversioned packages

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Otto

Am 05.02.23 um 17:55 schrieb Otto Kekäläinen:
> This is now solved on
> https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/31

Mangling the maintainers scripts of another package is a delicate issue 
as it's often fragile and can cause hard to debug failures in corner cases.

Personally, I would have turned the versioned packages into empty 
transitional packages. This would have made the upgrade process much 
smoother and avoided this issue altogether (the new empty versioned 
packages would have no maintainer scripts).
It's also common practice for such use cases.

Any reason why you didn't consider this approach?

Regards,
Michael







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