tag 514316 pending
thanks
Hello,
Bug #514316 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can
see the changelog below, and you can check the diff of the fix at:
http://git.debian.org/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=20f33fd
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commit 20f33fd89e06a214c861733c2cc28754eda58bfa
Author: Raphaël Hertzog <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Apr 12 12:32:18 2010 +0200
maintscript-helper: new program to simplify some maintainer scripts
This program is designed to be run within maintainer scripts to achieve
some tasks that dpkg can't (yet) handle natively either because of design
decisions or due to current limitations.
Many of those tasks require coordinated actions from several maintainer
scripts (preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm). To avoid mistakes the same
call simply needs to be put in all scripts and the program will
automatically
adapt its behaviour based on the environment variable DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_NAME
and on the maintainer scripts arguments that you have to forward after
a double dash.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 06757d7..30440e6 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ dpkg (1.15.6.2) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* dpkg now exports DPKG_LIBDIR to maintainer scripts pointing to the
private directory containing internal programs like the upcoming
maintscript-helper.
+ * Add $DPKG_LIBDIR/maintscript-helper program that can be used in
+ maintainer scripts to perform common operations working around
+ current dpkg limitations: first version supports removing obsolete
+ conffiles and renaming conffiles. Closes: #514316
[ Colin Watson ]
* Modern tar files typically use NormalFile1 rather than NormalFile0 for
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