[Dbconfig-common-devel] Re: dbconfig-common and shared db data

[sean finney]

hey joachim,

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 22:36 +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Well, it does only ask for removing the database when purging the
> non-frontend package (decaf-db), and it works _unless_ the frontend
> packages (decaf-workstation) will be purged before that.

ah-ha... okay, so you're setting it to the same package name, and when
the purge stuff happens for the frontend, it removes the debconf stuff
and the dbc config file for the package.

i don't know that there's a way around this while sharing the same
package name, probably the only fix you can do between now and etch
is to use a different package name and maybe conditionally source
the main package's file in the config script if  it exists before
calling dbc_go.

however, this is a pretty common scenario i'm guessing so it's
worth opening a bug on it so that later when i have some more
of that free time stuff i can add in support for such a thing.
care to do so?



	sean
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