On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:36:44AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 02:13:27PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:

> >   - On package upgrade, the preinst script of the new package is called
> >     *before* the prerm of the old package.

> Policy section 6.6 says the other way around.

>  
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase

Ok, you're right.  I'm not sure how I managed a misreading of this.

Still, the other points stand; this can be fixed very simply by the package
manager by processing packages in the right order, and can't be fixed at all
by slapd...

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