Bill Allombert wrote: > Then it is a bug in debhelper. It should still call update-menus in the > postinst, (or triggers it using dpkg-trigger). > > The problem is that menu only display menu entries for configured > packages, because unconfigured or half-configured packages generally > do not work. Without an explicit trigger in the postinst, dpkg run > the trigger before the package is configured and then update-menus > ignores it. This is related to bug #473461 which cause update-menus > to be run twice in some case which is a regression from Etch.
It'd be a real shame if it turns out we cannot use triggers to eliminate all the update-menus calls and eventually get rid of the ugly backgrounding code in update-menus. I wonder how useful it is for menu to test for unconfigured/half-configured packages at all. * That test does not cover unconfigured/half-configured dependencies, which could also potentially break a menu item. * If a package is temporarily de-configured in the middle of an apt run and then re-configured, update-menus will not be run in time to notice this happened, and the menu item will remain available throughout. * There's a window in package removal where all the files are gone, but the postrm has not run, when the menu items are certianly broken but still vidible. This is surely a more common case than any of the others, and yet update-menus doesn't handle it. (Triggers may have narrowed this window, I haven't checked.) * No such checks are done for desktop files, which are of course, where most naive users will really get their menus from.. So I guess it's up to you if you want to leave this test in. If you do, I can either revert the debhelper change or add code to manually trigger menu in the postinst. I'm not sure if explicitly triggering menu will result in update-menus running less often or not, so am inclined not to bother trying to do that. > Fixing bug 473461 might alleviate this problem when using apt. Only partially at best. (Since there are other package managers than apt.) -- see shy jo
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