Hello Paul, On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 02:56:24AM -0700, Paul Hardy wrote: > Then would you consider it acceptable to make some mention in a > footnote to the effect that with the latest "dh" build tools, it isn't > necessary to have postinst and postrm scripts in the debian directory > for this purpose? Because otherwise, someone who did not already know > about this could misunderstand the implications of this requirement > and create redundant postinst and postrm scripts.
The problem is that if we think there should be footnotes explaining that there is a dh_* tool that takes care of the requirement, we would then need new footnotes to almost every section of Policy. That would be a bad idea. -- Sean Whitton
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