[Dbconfig-common-devel] Disable database management

[Daniel Dehennin]

Paul Gevers <elbrus at debian.org> writes:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 29-04-16 14:36, Daniel Dehennin wrote:
>> Is there anything to do in postinst to handle the case where the admin
>> opt-out dbconfig-common.
>> 
>> It looks like there is an issue in sympa[1] due to the way the
>> postinst[2] is written.
>
> Yes, a package must not unconditionally use variables set by
> dbconfig-common. I would say that the lines after 235 need to be in an
> if [ "$dbc_install" = "true" ] && [ "${_dbc_on_error_option}" !=
> "ignore" ] ;
> fi
> block.
>
> But please also see my (today !!) reported bug 822945¹ against
> dbconfig-common. I have the same issue in my package cacti.

It looks like I need to check db_no_thanks too, like

#+begin_src sh
if ! dbc_no_thanks || \
    [ "$dbc_install" = "true" ] \
    && [ "${_dbc_on_error_option}" != "ignore" ]
then
    ...
fi
#+end_src

Is it possible to have something added to the documentation about it?

Regards.
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