Hi Luca,
On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2012, Luca Capello wrote:
> To summarize: I do not remember where in the Debian Policy there is
> specified that a maintainer script should use binaries only from the
> (Pre-)Depends: packages. If we would enforce this rule, then piuparts
> is not at fault. But IMHO the problem is that there is no way to
> specify a Post-Depends:, i.e. the fact that a dependency must be
> available *after* removal (so for purging).
policy says you can only rely on essential packages in purge.
From the piuparts bug templates: "According to policy 7.2 you cannot rely on
the depends being available during purge, only the essential packages are
available for sure."
cheers,
Holger
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