- in the long run, hardcoding the question priorities isn't ideal. for example, if a something goes wrong and the user selects "retry", they should get all questions in case they needed to change something that they missed. - the code is "in the process of" getting a cleanup. there are still a few globally scoped variables that ought to be removed and/or replaced by local scoped variables. - testing various corner cases: - errors dumping during upgrade - errors dumping during purge - test suite for testing new versions of dbconfig-common. ideally it could just be a shell script that: - builds the dbc package - creates a chroot, chroots into it and: - installs the dbc package + deps + db servers, - creates the examples out of /usr/share/doc/dbconfig-common/examples - installs the examples in various ways to test functionality. - multiple instance support for many databases from one package. the idea is to create seperate "package configurations" that are derived from the main configuration, using something to keep them in a namespace that won't conflict with the standard package configurations. something like /etc/dbconfig-common/package_instance.conf etc. most of dbconfig's code could escape needing a rewrite then, as we could internally "trick" the code into thinking that was the actual package name. - provide a normal-user-accessible script for setting up databases (for running out of public_html type directories etc). - support for other database types (sqlite, others?) - think about how this should tie in with the webapps-common. - begin discussion on having the "best-practices" document incorporated in some form as debian policy. - ask if the user is to be completely deleted or only have privileges revoked in mysql. this is the default in pgsql, but in pgsql the drop will fail if the user owns other databases (not so in mysql). - mysql does not support ssl for the time being (see bug #291945) - should we remove users completely at purge?