Hello,

On Sat 24 May 2025 at 04:37am -07, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> This sounds interesting.  I think another possible fix is to let
> emacsen-common do `emacs-remove $FLAVOR' on preinst, so that the elpa
> directory of the old version of addon is cleaned up; and `emacs-install
> $FLAVOR' on postinst to handle the current version of the addon (could
> be old if the newer version is not yet unpacked).  This requires that an
> addon is not configured/set-up before emacsen-common, which seems to be
> the case during my testing because an addon Depends on emacsen-common, I
> guess.  Would be good if someone can confirm this behavior from from
> `apt upgrade'.

We don't need to do this by experimentation :)

Everything about what maintscripts may and may not assume is written
down in Policy.  Please take another look.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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