Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be honest, this is exactly an example where I would *NOT* want to see > this implemented. > > A major downside of the mechanism supported by this package is that there > is absolutely no check is any errors occur during the running of these > postponed scripts!
That's exactly the reason why we never did that ourselves. > For all other potential use cases, maintainers should wait for the > implementation of triggers in dpkg [2], which is the only correct way to > deal with this issue. Seconded. Regards, Frank > [1] And that this is not purely theoretical can be shown with the recent > RC bugs (#419020 and friends) against jadetex, which caused failure in > the postinst for all texlive packages which call such scripts. Well, this one is actually a bad example, because it wouldn't happen if the thing was postponed, it's kind of a timing issue. But there are other valid examples of failed TeX commands (by the dozen in the BTS). -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
