garbd configuration is clobbered by upgrade on Debian/Ubuntu about galera

[matthewfischer]

I found that what its really doing is moving the symlink. The file that /etc/default/garbd linked to is still there as /etc/default/blah-percona-2.x. In the case of a symlink I'm not sure what the official Debian policy should be.

[ottok]

At least according to Piuparts testing in Debian the package installs and removes cleanly:
https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/maintainer/p/[email protected]#galera-3
https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/pass/galera-3_25.3.13-1.log

I also tested manually that apt-get remove and purge work as expected:

$ sudo apt-get install galera-3 galera-arbitrator-3
...
Setting up galera-arbitrator-3 (25.3.13-1) ...

$ sudo find /etc -name garb
/etc/default/garb
/etc/init.d/garb

$ dpkg -L galera-arbitrator-3
/.
/etc
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/garb
/etc/default
/etc/default/garb
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/lintian
/usr/share/lintian/overrides
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/galera-arbitrator-3
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/garbd.8.gz
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/galera-arbitrator-3
/usr/share/doc/galera-arbitrator-3/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/galera-arbitrator-3/copyright
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/garbd

$ sudo apt-get remove galera-arbitrator-3
...
Removing galera-arbitrator-3 (25.3.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...

$ dpkg -L galera-arbitrator-3
/etc
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/garb
/etc/default
/etc/default/garb

$ sudo apt-get purge galera-arbitrator-3
...
Removing galera-arbitrator-3 (25.3.13-1) ...
Purging configuration files for galera-arbitrator-3 (25.3.13-1) ...

$ dpkg -L galera-arbitrator-3
dpkg-query: package 'galera-arbitrator-3' is not installed

$ find /etc -name garb
$

@philip-galera I recommend closing this issue (I don't have permissions to do so).

[ayurchen]

Since this bug was reported, Debian packaging changed a lot, so it must be fixed.
Thanks, Otto!