Debian Bug report logs - #816460
add option to not removed phpmyadmin

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: add option to not removed phpmyadmin

Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:04:59 +0800

Package: phpmyadmin

Well I hit RET on the usual aptitude "safe-upgrade" without reading:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libjs-sphinxdoc{pu} (D: phpmyadmin)  phpmyadmin{pu}
The following packages will be upgraded:
  aptitude  aptitude-common (aptitude D: aptitude-common)  aptitude-doc-en  dbconfig-common
  dbconfig-mysql  gnupg-agent  gnupg2  libapache2-mod-php
  libapache2-mod-php7.0 (libapache2-mod-php7.0P<- libapache2-mod-php)  libcupsfilters1  libfreetype6
  libgraphite2-3  libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0  libgstreamer1.0-0  libpng12-0
  libssl1.0.2 (openssl D: libssl1.0.2)  libxml-xpath-perl  openssl  php  php-cli
  php-common (libapache2-mod-php7.0P<- libapache2-mod-php D: php7.0-common D: php-common, php7.0P<- php D: php7.0-common D: php-common, php7.0-cliP<- php-cli D: php7.0-common D: php-common, php7.0-jsonP<- php-json D: php-common, php7.0-mcryptP<- php-mcrypt D: php-common)
  php-json  php-mcrypt  php-mysql  php-pear  php7.0 (php7.0P<- php)  php7.0-cgi
  php7.0-cli (php7.0-cliP<- php-cli)
  php7.0-common (libapache2-mod-php7.0P<- libapache2-mod-php D: php7.0-common, php7.0P<- php D: php7.0-common, php7.0-cliP<- php-cli D: php7.0-common, php7.0-jsonP<- php-json D: php7.0-common, php7.0-mcryptP<- php-mcrypt D: php7.0-common)
  php7.0-json (php7.0-jsonP<- php-json)  php7.0-mcrypt (php7.0-mcryptP<- php-mcrypt)  php7.0-mysql
  php7.0-opcache  php7.0-readline
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  dirmngr (R: gnupg2)
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-base (R: libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0, R: libwebkitgtk-1.0-0, R: libwebkitgtk-3.0-0, S: libgstreamer1.0-0)
  libparse-debianchangelog-perl (R: aptitude)

And next thing you know I am looking at:

 Since you are removing phpmyadmin, it's possible that you no longer want the underlying database and     │
 │ the privileges for the user associated with this package.                                                │
 │                                                                                                          │
 │ Please choose whether database removal and privilege revocation should be handled with dbconfig-common.  │
 │                                                                                                          │
 │ If you choose this option, dbconfig-common will check if phpmyadmin provided scripts and database        │
 │ commands to undo package specific operations and run them if they exist. Then it will ask if you want    │
 │ to delete the phpmyadmin database and revoke the standard privileges for the user of phpmyadmin. If you  │
 │ don't want any of this, or if you want to handle this manually, you should refuse this option.           │
 │                                                                                                          │
 │ Deconfigure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common?                                                │
 │                                                                                                          │
 │                               <Yes>                                  <No>

Well from past experience with aptitude, ^C will not allow one to abort
here.

So I chose <No> and later reinstall phpmyadmin but of course things are
still ruined.

So please add
                         <Yes> <No> <Do Not Remove phpmyadmin>

Message #10 received at 816460@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>

To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>, 816460@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#816460: add option to not removed phpmyadmin

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 08:01:41 +0100

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Control: reassign -1 dbconfig-common

Dne 2.3.2016 v 01:04 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson napsal(a):
> And next thing you know I am looking at:
> 
>  Since you are removing phpmyadmin, it's possible that you no longer want the underlying database and     │
>  │ the privileges for the user associated with this package.                                                │
>  │                                                                                                          │
>  │ Please choose whether database removal and privilege revocation should be handled with dbconfig-common.  │
>  │                                                                                                          │
>  │ If you choose this option, dbconfig-common will check if phpmyadmin provided scripts and database        │
>  │ commands to undo package specific operations and run them if they exist. Then it will ask if you want    │
>  │ to delete the phpmyadmin database and revoke the standard privileges for the user of phpmyadmin. If you  │
>  │ don't want any of this, or if you want to handle this manually, you should refuse this option.           │
>  │                                                                                                          │
>  │ Deconfigure database for phpmyadmin with dbconfig-common?                                                │
>  │                                                                                                          │
>  │                               <Yes>                                  <No>
> 
> Well from past experience with aptitude, ^C will not allow one to abort
> here.
> 
> So I chose <No> and later reinstall phpmyadmin but of course things are
> still ruined.

Because you've chosen to purge the package, what do you expect?

> So please add
>                          <Yes> <No> <Do Not Remove phpmyadmin>

Anyway this dialog comes from dbconfig-common, so if it would be
changed, it has to be done there. Not that I think the package scripts
should do this, but still reassigning to proper package.

-- 
	Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com

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Message #19 received at 816460-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>

To: 816460-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: add option to not removed phpmyadmin

Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 20:32:04 +0100

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Control: tags -1 wontfix

On Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:04:59 +0800 =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson
<jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

> Well I hit RET on the usual aptitude "safe-upgrade" without reading:

So after you admit that you don't read you want us to ask again by
requesting:

> So please add
>                          <Yes> <No> <Do Not Remove phpmyadmin>

Apart from the fact that it is already too late at this stage (you
really should not answer "Yes" when you mean "No" on the question "are
you sure"), we can't do this ad-finite. (So I am not going to clone this
bug and assign the request to dpkg to add the possibility to bail out
gracefully after the question is already asked). One time "are you sure"
ought to be enough.

Paul

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Message #24 received at 816460@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: 816460@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#816460 closed by Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org> (Re: add option to not removed phpmyadmin)

Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 10:19:32 +0800

OK I agree with you but note that when removing the current kernel it
asks you if you want to abort.

Also odd that phpmyadmin must have been marked as autoinstalled.
Doing aptitude search ~M fortunately finds no other such cases.
And I don't recall using any of the apt-cache showpkg phpmyadmin
packages that would have made it that way.

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