[debian-mysql] About removing /var/lib/mysql on purge

[Stewart Smith]

Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> writes:
> Here is a bug about /var/lib/mysql and /etc/mysql/debian.cnf being
> left behing on purging which based on piuparts logs seem to apply on
> both mysql and mariadb packages.
>
> I added the result of my investigation as comments in the bug three
> weeks ago, but since then I haven't had any new ideas about it.
>
> Would somebody else maybe want to take a try to come up with a solution?

Hrm... what does PostgreSQL do? Does removing apache remove /var/www ?

I can imagine if --purge removed /var/lib/mysql we'd get bug reports
about all of their data being gone....

-- 
Stewart Smith
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 818 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-mysql-maint/attachments/20141125/b0bbad9a/attachment.sig>