Hello Sean
I think the following will work:
1. Seting Woodies debconf answer to false once MySQL 4.0 or 4.1 gets
installed so that his danger is voided once for all.
2. To prevent 4.0, 4.1 and soon 5.0, which asks the Debconf question
only immediately before purging in the postrm script, from removing
each others files I check with "dpkg -l mysql-server*" if there is
more than one package in hold or installed state.
(this feels very ugly to me but I didn't came up with a better way
to check if any mysql-server package is installed. "dpkg -S" does
now list an "owner" of /var/lib/mysql and the current package can
already be removed but not yet purged so a "dpkg -l $packagename"
instead of the "egrep -c ^.[hi]" does not work. At least the status
letters of "dpkg -l" are not localized :))
I've committed changes to the 4.0 branch. They are untested because I'm
too tired. If you have time, can you review them? I will do more tomorrow.
bye,
-christian-
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