Thorsten Glaser writes ("Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not
deconfigured"):
> Norbert Preining <preining <at> logic.at> writes:
> > In the trigger program we already check that texlive base is in proper
> > state (ii in dpkg listing), but that seems not to be enough.
>
> ISTR reading somewhere that Depends do not mean that the dependency is
> always configured before the package depending on it is configured, but
> only that it once was configured successfully.
This is true. If A -Depends-> B and A is "installed" then at the time
when A became "installed", B was "installed", and B has never been
worse than "unpacked" at any time since then.
The alternative would make it impossible to upgrade B without
deconfiguring A first. The resulting churn would be very undesirable.
Ian.
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