Hi, On Sun, 23 May 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > It's not clear from dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) if the package > version is optional. Omitting the package version can be useful:
It was not meant to be optional but I would gladly make it optional if everything works as expected. After review, I think I have to change the way a modified obsolete conffile is handled otherwise any later abort-upgrade would reinstall the obsolete conffile in place. > * If doing as the man page suggests and avoiding a pre-depends > by testing dpkg-maintscript-helper supports. > Here you'd presumably still want to let the action happen > in a later upgrade if the old conffile is still present. > (At least when removing an old conffile.. doing that when > renaming a conffile is probably unsafe.) What exactly do you fear when renaming a conffile? > * In debhelper, which needs to move conffiles sometimes, and doesn't > have package version information available. I hope you will provide a way for the maintainer to supply the required version. > Based on my reading of dpkg-maintscript-helper, if a version of "" > is specified, since it uses le-nl to compare versions, it will > always run the action, and should handle these cases. I used le-nl so that $2 le-nl "<version>" would evaluate to true when $2 is empty (case of $1 == "install"). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
