Op zo 27 jan. 2019 om 19:22 schreef Otto Kekäläinen <[email protected]>: > Yes, I guess it would be ideal if the upstream binary ignored unknown > configs instead of stopping on them. Maybe Marko has some comments on > this. > > In packaging we could have some preinstall script that simply added a > comment to all lines with deprecated config items in the configs, and > would thus handle the migration automatically. > Here is the commit about the changes necessary to the default configs > in Debian: > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-10.3/commit/ae10a7fca8ddbc4f448f6a106440e9d8cbe14eac > > Would you Olaf want to contribute to the maintainer scripts and write > up some sed commands etc that would do this?
Are scripts allowed to touch conf files? I think not. This should be solved upstream such that everybody benefits. -- Olaf
