On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:21:40PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 6/2/2011 8:33 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > >In general, the reason for this rule about satisfying dependencies is > >that a triggering package may well not be functional at all until the > >trigger is run. For example, if the triggering package T needs to be > >registered with the interested package I, a package D which depends on > >T may find that T does not work - and D's postinst may fail due to T > >being broken.
> If postinst depends on the package, then it should be a pre-depend, > not a depend, shouldn't it? Absolutely not. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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