Bug#823256: debian-policy: Update maintscript arguments with dpkg >= 1.18.5

Russ Allbery writes: > Here is a patch that I believe implements that, and which I think is > ready for seconds. Thanks for the review, both. This has now been applied for the next release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#823256: debian-policy: Update maintscript arguments with dpkg >= 1.18.5

Hi! On Tue, 2022-09-20 at 18:52:22 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Here is a patch that I believe implements that, and which I think is ready > for seconds. > >From 2260f7a3aafe93282860aad07b7d8c1544bcf0ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Russ Allbery > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 18:49:04 -0700 >

Bug#823256: debian-policy: Update maintscript arguments with dpkg >= 1.18.5

Hello, On Tue 20 Sep 2022 at 06:52PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Starting with dpkg 1.18.5, several maintainer script actions > involving a new package version get that version as an argument > after the old version. Update Policy's maintainer script > documentation accordingly. > --- >

Bug#823256: debian-policy: Update maintscript arguments with dpkg >= 1.18.5

Guillem Jover writes: > Starting with dpkg 1.18.5, several maintainer script actions involving a > new package version, get that version as an argument after the old > version, because they could not get it in any other easy way. The new > version was only available in the new package somewhere

Bug#823256: debian-policy: Update maintscript arguments with dpkg >= 1.18.5

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8 Severity: normal Hi! Starting with dpkg 1.18.5, several maintainer script actions involving a new package version, get that version as an argument after the old version, because they could not get it in any other easy way. The new version was only available