Hi Raphaël et al,
The dpkg-maintscript-helper manpage states:
Given that dpkg-maintscript-helper is used in the preinst,
using it unconditionally requires a pre-dependency to ensure
that the required version of dpkg has been configured before.
but that seems somewhat ambiguous to me now that a version of dpkg
with that functionality is in squeeze. Is the pre-dependency just to
ensure the right version of dpkg has been unpacked, or does it have to
have been configured?
Put another way, is dpkg-maintscript-helper part of dpkg's essential
functionality?
The reason I ask is to see whether one needs to go through the usual
process of adding a pre-dependency (following policy §3.5) to use
dpkg-maintscript-helper in wheezy. (If not, backporters would still
need a pre-dependency but the package in wheezy can be a little
simpler.)
Thanks for dpkg-maintscript-helper, by the way; it's very handy.
Jonathan
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