2011/3/25 Robert Luberda <rob...@debian.org>: > Agustin Martin writes: > >>> Maybe the compat file creation should be moved to preinst? Augustin, >>> what do you think about it? >> >> If there is no other possibility I am afraid I should try that. That will >> however make dpkg-reconfigure not rebuild the hash. May be puttng that >> in both places may help, but that may trigger building twice unless I check >> for reconfigure in postinst. But I do not understand why current >> setup is being problematic. > > I've just came up with about other possible solutions: > - create the empty hash file in preinst (if the file doesn't exist) > - overwrite the compat file in debconf's config script (in addition to > preinst, instead of postinst) - I can see ingerman does this
Hi again, Robert, I am still thinking about possible scenarios where current setup may fail. I could only see a possible one, a ispell dictionary using autobuild depending on another ispell dictionary using autobuild, which may launch trigger before expected. This is something I'd not expect to happen, people should do like you do in ienglish-common package, but I cannot discard that completely. So I am thinking about also setting things in preinst to make sure everything is created at first trigger invocation. That would leave: preinst: reset package compat files always postinst: reset package compatfiles only if $1 = "reconfigure" postrm: Remove package compat files and hashes in remove target I am not tsure that this will ever be really needed, but now that the only dictionaries using the new system are those derived from ispell package and a couple of my dicts, I think is time to make the system as robust as possible. What do you think? As a side note I was preparing a NMU for myspell-fi because of #619269 (myspell-fi: Remove unconditional call to soon to disappear 'update-openoffice-dicts') when I noticed that you filed #623072 (ifinnish: uninstallable in sid). I have been looking at that bug report and also at #581458 (ispell-fi: bashism in debian/rules) and #551284 (wfinnish: Most lines in /usr/share/dict/finnish end with $\ for some reason), last two are indeed the same problem, and would like to upload a 0-day NMU around Tuesday. I had problems in my sid pbuilder yesterday and have no sid box during the weekend to make final tests before uploading. Is this OK with your plans? I will mail those bug reports tomorrow with a full diff for my intended NMU. Will keep you cc'ed. A final note. I forgot to suggest you to subscribe to the "Dict-common-dev" mailing list at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/dict-common-dev. That is a very low traffic mailing list that is supposed to be the list for spellchecking coordination. Unfortunately only some of the maintainers of spellchecking related packages are subscribe to that list, but that is still useful. Regards, -- Agustin . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
