On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 22:26 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > -- 8< -- > Subject: debian/preinst: Do not error out if files are missing > > Even if /bin/sh or its manpage is missing, "dpkg -i dash.deb" needs to > succeed. Currently it errors out because cp exits with nonzero status > when the file to be copied is missing.
Thanks for this, Jonathan; I have to admit that it didn't occur to me while tidying up the preinst in -7.3. fwiw, it looks like the postinst will have the same issue. Let me know if you need a sponsor for an upload fixing this. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
