Hi, On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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?
Unpacking is enough. It's just a shell script, there's nothing more needed to make it work. > 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.) Yeah, I fully expect people to not add the pre-dependency when the given dpkg-maintscript-helper function is supported in oldstable. Until then I advise people to use the protected version (with the if test) or to add the pre-dependency (but it's not really needed to discuss it on -devel, introducing a requirement to upgrade dpkg early in the upgrade process is not a big deal). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
