Hi Holger! On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 15:12:13 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > 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."
Thank you, I stand corrected. I still think that this should be solved at the dpkg level, either with a Post-Depends: or we should have a way to "promote" such files (dbconfig-common or ucf) to `conffile's status. But then I probably miss the wider picture. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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