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MariaDB packages - Maintainer scripts - Question prefixes

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      Hello,

      It would be great to also update debconf question prefixes when you release a new minor version. For instance, when installing the mariadb-server-5.5 package on Debian we have the following question set

      root@wheezy:~# debconf-show mariadb-server-5.5 
        mysql-server/root_password_again: (password omitted)
        mysql-server/root_password: (password omitted)
        mariadb-server-5.5/really_downgrade: false
        mysql-server/error_setting_password:
        mysql-server-5.1/nis_warning:
        mysql-server-5.1/start_on_boot: true
        mysql-server-5.1/postrm_remove_databases: false
        mysql-server/password_mismatch:
        mysql-server/no_upgrade_when_using_ndb:

      As you can see here, question prefix stick to 5.1 while we would expect 5.5. Fixing this is important in regard of some scripts which prefill debconf database according package versions they intend to install.

      Also, I think that you should use package onwer name for question prefix too (as it is done for Percona packages).

      For instance

      mysql-server/root_password

      should be

      mariadb-server/root_password

      All here is about consistency.

      Thanks you for your understanding.

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            otto Otto Kekäläinen
            nuxwin Laurent Declercq
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