Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Current Policy says:
,---- 7.2 Binary Dependencies | The Depends field should also be used if the postinst, prerm or | postrm scripts require the package to be present in order to | run. Note, however, that the postrm cannot rely on any | non-essential packages to be present during the purge phase. `---- I suggest to add to the second sentence: ", and that only the postinst script can rely on the package to be configured." I'm not even sure whether the postinst can rely on "configuredness" for all types of incovation, or only for "configure"/"reconfigure". For an example why this difference is important, see #403641 Regards, Frank -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (99, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) -- no debconf information -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
