Package: fonts-manchufont Version: 2.007.svn0068-2 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise
Using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile' guards introduces unreliability into upgrades; it means that the conffile is removed or not depending on whether dpkg happens to be unpacked before fonts-manchufont. This seems generally undesirable; it would be better to enforce a single code path. (This is academic for Debian because the version of dpkg in squeeze supported dpkg-maintscript-helper, hence Severity: wishlist; Ubuntu's last LTS release didn't have a sufficient version of dpkg for that which is why I care.) It would be nice to just use dh_installdeb's support for generating dpkg-maintscript-helper commands, which was introduced in debhelper 8.1.0. This would remove duplicate code from your maintainer scripts - in fact, you'd no longer need to have handwritten maintainer scripts at all. Here's a patch: * Use maintscript support in dh_installdeb rather than writing out dpkg-maintscript-helper commands by hand. We now simply Pre-Depend on a new enough version of dpkg rather than using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper supports' guards, leading to more predictable behaviour on upgrades. diff -Nru fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/control fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/control --- fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/control 2011-09-03 10:09:34.000000000 +0100 +++ fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/control 2012-02-12 13:29:38.000000000 +0000 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Uploaders: Arne Goetje <a...@linux.org.tw> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8) +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.1.0~) Standards-Version: 3.9.2 Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/manchufont/ Vcs-svn: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fonts/packages/fonts-manchufont @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ Package: fonts-manchufont Architecture: all +Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends} Depends: ${misc:Depends} Replaces: ttf-manchufont (<< 2.007.svn0068-2) Conflicts: ttf-manchufont (<< 2.007.svn0068-2) diff -Nru fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/maintscript fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/maintscript --- fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/maintscript 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/maintscript 2012-02-12 13:28:51.000000000 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-manchufont.hints 2.007.svn0068-2 diff -Nru fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postinst fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postinst --- fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postinst 2011-09-01 19:01:40.000000000 +0100 +++ fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postinst 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -set -e - -if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile 2>/dev/null; then - dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-manchufont.hints 2.007.svn0068-2 -- "$@" -fi - -#DEBHELPER# - diff -Nru fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postrm fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postrm --- fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postrm 2011-09-01 19:01:40.000000000 +0100 +++ fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/postrm 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -set -e - -if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile 2>/dev/null; then - dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-manchufont.hints 2.007.svn0068-2 -- "$@" -fi - -#DEBHELPER# - diff -Nru fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/preinst fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/preinst --- fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/preinst 2011-09-01 19:01:40.000000000 +0100 +++ fonts-manchufont-2.007.svn0068/debian/preinst 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,9 +0,0 @@ -#!/bin/sh -set -e - -if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile 2>/dev/null; then - dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-manchufont.hints 2.007.svn0068-2 -- "$@" -fi - -#DEBHELPER# - Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org