On Mon, 24 May 2010, Joey Hess wrote: > The scenario I envision is a package upgrade that moves a conffile, but > also changes it. Suppose the new version is needed to avoid breakage.
It looks like this case is already broken even when dpkg-maintscript-helper is called in the preinst in the case where the old file was modified. See http://lists.debian.org/aanlktilbzrketve4wnkf1z6vlbrgqg9vlabvkeaz3...@mail.gmail.com and my subsequent answer. > There is no pre-depends on dpkg. The preinst does not run > dpkg-maintscript-helper, because a new enough dpkg is not installed yet. > Then dpkg is upgraded, and then the postinst runs (a low proability, but > possible scenario w/o a pre-depends). apt-get/aptitude installs dpkg in a separate run at the start of the upgrade and makes all this even less likely. 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
