On Sat, Jan 28, 2017 at 09:21:13PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Package: mysql-server-5.7 > Version: 5.7.16-2 > Severity: serious > > Hello! > > I'm really confused by the change in the postrm introduced in response > to LP: #1602945, and I simply do not understand the rationale of the > original bug report, and the comment there (and in the git commit log) > that "Remove the check on the server binary, since it shouldn't be > possible for another package to own that file anyway" is clearly > incorrect: during a postrm remove|purge run, if that file exists - > which it may well do, it will certainly belong to a different package, > such as mysql-server-5.8 or mariadb-server-10.1.
And looking at the existing postrms, I see that this is effectively just Debian bug #307473 reopened. That was regarded as critical! Best wishes, Julian
