Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't think so. Usually, the lines "quoted" above are caused by >> apt(itude) invoking dpkg like this: >> >> dpkg --configure lmodern other-font-package texlive-base-bin bar baz >> wrmft-foo >> >> And then the intended effect will be achieved. > > OK. In this case, that's acceptable. Not perfect nevertheless, because I > think that in non-trivial upgrades, there are often several dpkg runs > (e.g., unpacking, configuring, unpacking again, configuring again), and > this would lead to mktexlsr & Co being run several times before > texlive-base-bin is configured in the end, but it's still much better > than the current situation.
Yes, but I think it's actually better this way. If an upgrade is non-trivial, it's really desirable to have as many packages in an "as-configured-as-possible" state, and not leave them in installed or triggers-foo while trying the next bunch of packages. Otherwise, the non-trivial upgrade might become a non-trivial failure... >> The reason can be extended by the scenario that I is installed after the >> Ts (and no T depends on I, maybe Suggests or Enhances). >> >> A package I may be installed and configured after and independently >> of packages T which would have activated one of its triggers, had it >> been installed earlier. Therefore, I's postinst must do any work >> needed for trigger processing even when called with "configure". > > I agree, although it's not strictly speaking "trigger processing" in the > last line, since there won't be any trigger in this case. It's rather > something like "the work that needs to be done, and would have been done > by trigger processing, if package I had not been in a state where it > ignores triggers". What about s/work needed/work otherwise needed/, or even s/work needed/work that would otherwise be needed/ Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
