On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 09:24:46AM +0100, Lars Tangvald wrote: > > The problem with the old code was that at the point it was run, > usr/sbin/mysqld _always_ existed, so it was just a big chunk of dead code. > The code was just copied from the old packages that had a different > structure. I think the code would need to be in the maintainer script for > the package that has the server binary, so that it would run correctly after > the package's own binary is removed, but that's -server-core, which doesn't > run any postrm (we could add it, but part of the point of the core packages > is that they don't run anything).
Oh, I didn't realise that there was this split between -server and -server-core. > Anyone else have any good ideas on how to handle this? Yes, but I don't have time to write it now - will have a go later in the day. Julian
