On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:45:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote: > > And from policy 7.2, in the 'Depends' description: > > > > "...Note, however, that the postrm cannot rely on any non-essential > > packages to be present during the purge phase..." > > > > It seems dh_installxfonts is generating postrm which breaks this policy. > > Policy also says, > > 9. Font packages must declare a dependency on `xfonts-utils' in > their control data.
Sure. And all packages mentioned here already do that via ${misc:Depends}.
But in this case, you can see the dependency is not always available at
purge stage.
Would it help if dh_installxfonts is moved to xfonts-utils and let it fill
the postrm with the actual scripts contents?
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