Hello Otto, On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 01:02:58PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > I mean the docs linked above is meant for people installing packages > (consuming them). I don't find it helpful for myself as the package > producer. The docs don't tell me how a database must be packaged to be > compatible with dbconfig. Or maybe they do somewhere but I don't get > it. Maybe reading some example code from somewhere or seeing a > copy-paste of them the installer fails would help here.
o.k. now I got you I think. Don't care about packages that need to set up databases, just provide with mariadb-server all possible authentication methods and guide the user while installing your package. And maybe provide a dbconfig way to add later new user/password/host combinations to the server with dpkg-reconfigure $foo. dbconfig isn't that difficult if you got a step in. I suggest to get in contact with Paul Grevers who will shurly help you with a dbconfig setup for mariadb-server as he is the mainatainer of dbconfig-common and has the knowledge. A already had some conversions with him and he is willing to help if he can. > I will not close this bug just yet. I am interested in getting > mariadb-server compatible with dbconfig - I just have no idea how to > do it as I don't understand how dbconfig works. > > If the fix is obivious to somebody else, having this issue open and > waiting for somebody to send a patch in would server a cause. O.k. that's fine. PS: I removed [email protected] as the forwarding is bounced. Paul Grevers is the new maintainer of dbconfig-common. https://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dbconfig-common.html Regards Carsten
