Hi, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > Rene Engelhard kirjoitti: > > But what I do like is the "missing" preinst and doing the unregistering > > in prerm. Saves us pre-dependencies... > > > > AFAIK all extensions so far do it in preinst. I have no idea anymore, > > though, > > why... > > In openofffice.org-voikko unregistering is done both in prerm and > preinst. Prerm is handling remove and preinst upgrade & install. > > The point is/was that user might have self installed ooo-voikko, so also > in the install case OOo should unregister any possible previous voikko > extensions before registering the new one. [...]
Yeah, right, now I remember the use case. (I revisited this while fixing OOos extension to have proper Pre-Dependencies) > I'm not sure if it's pointless for a Debian package to support this case > or not. I don't think that this is rare, people will often have extensions installed before they get packaged in Debian... > But maybe anyway unregistering on upgrade should be done in prerm, not > preinst, for all packages? Or is there any possible point in having the > upgrade handled in preinst instead? As you said, if people installed it themselves, there's no old prerm which can unregister it... Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-openoffice-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
