tags 762031 confirmed pending
thanks

Raphaël Hertzog wrote...

> An "interest /usr" trigger means that any package installing a file in
> /usr will be marked as triggers-noawait instead of being immediately
> configured.
> 
> This is counter-productive given that debian-security-support doesn't
> bring anything to those packages and they have no reason to wait until
> debian-security-support's trigger is applied...

Indeed, I will change that. May I ask you in exchange to add the above
explanation and/or

| The first way is to modify most triggers so that they use the
| “interest-noawait” directive. In that case, the packages activating
| the trigger will be immediately marked as configured (instead of
| “triggers-awaited”) and the trigger will thus not need to be run as
| part of further dependency solving logic.
[ http://raphaelhertzog.com/2012/09/05/my-debian-activities-in-august-2012/ ]

to the deb-triggers manpage? Without these I felt rather confused
about the purpose of -noawait.

> Thus please use "interest-noawait" instead of  "interest". Beware that
> this directive is not supported in oldstable (it has been introduced in
> dpkg 1.16.1), you will have to change that for backports to squeeze.

Thanks for the heads-up, will take care of that.

    Christoph

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