On 2011-12-03 12:12, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > On Montag, 28. November 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>> shouldn't --install-remove-install be the default then? As it will always >>> catch more errors, and never less, or? >> I didn't think about this carefully, yet. For the install-purge test it >> may be so, but for all the upgrade tests it changes behaviour >> significantly. > > Why? "install, remove, install, upgrade, remove, purge" should never catch > less errors then "install, upgrade, remove, purge" ?!
Possible missed error: Some completely braindead maintainer scripts ... 'postrm purge' fails if 'postinst configure' has never been in upgrade mode ... > As I see it, the only thing we need to make sure is, that these new tests > don't catch _too many_ of these errors, making the more important once less > visible. But then, these errors are pretty important I'd say and I also don't > expect too many to show up. I'll setup a second variant of sid next week and run it with this version, so lets have a look how the difference looks like. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

