Andreas Beckmann: > Package: debhelper > Version: 10.7.2 > Severity: normal >
Hi, > in src:glx-alternatives I have a script to generate > debian/glx-alternative-mesa.triggers, but unfortunately I have to run it > explicitly from debian/rules, I cannot just make it executable and name > it debian/glx-alternative-mesa.triggers as it works with other files. > Would you also expect that "postinst" (etc.) behaved the same? AFAICT, there is no reason why it should not apply to them as well if triggers started doing this. > dh_installdeb also generates 'Pre-Depends: dpkg (>> ...)', for having > .maintscript files. > It might be useful to something similar for triggers, according to > deb-triggers(5) this must be 'Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1)' for > -noawait triggers and 'Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.21)' for -await > triggers. > > > Andreas > > [...] These are actually somewhat obsolete as the versions are satisfied in oldoldstable. I have opted for removing the remaining versioned constraints. Thanks, ~Niels
