severity 287978 important reassign 287978 dpkg thanks hi andreas,
i'm reassigning this to dpkg, as i believe that this is a documented
problem with dpkg handling symlinks (i believe there are also
other open bugs reporting this against dpkg).
perhaps the dpkg maintainers would care to comment on what the
best approach would be to handle this problem[1]? istr reading
a report where it was stated there wasn't an easy way to fix
this within dpkg. if that's the case, perhaps providing an empty
.placeholder file in /var/lib/mysql would be an effective workaround?
i've also lowered the severity of the bug to important, as it does not
cause any data loss (loss of availability, yes, but not data), and only
affects some users (those who have symlinked).
sean
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[1] short summary for you: /var/lib/mysql symlink removed and replaced
with empty directory at upgrade.
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