As a follow-up, here's a much smaller version of the above patch.
Thanks go to Petter for pointing me to the maintainer scripts
documentation.
diff -r 9e5e6d9f91b1 debian/monkeysphere.postinst
--- a/debian/monkeysphere.postinst Sat Jun 28 14:54:59 2014 -0500
+++ b/debian/monkeysphere.postinst Sat Jun 28 14:55:33 2014 -0500
@@ -21,12 +21,15 @@
monkeysphere
fi
- # try all available transitions:
+ # try all *necessary* transitions
for trans in 0.23 0.28 ; do
+ if [[ "$2" == "" ]] || [[ "$trans" <= "$2" ]]
+ then
/usr/share/monkeysphere/transitions/$trans || { \
RET=$?
echo "Failed running transition script " \
"/usr/share/monkeysphere/transitions/$trans" >&2
exit $RET
}
+ fi
done
