Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#443334: policy: postinst abort-remove state."):
> I have lost track of the status of this and I don't know if a Policy
> change is still needed here. Has this change been made in dpkg? Is there
> something that should be changed in the Policy wording at this point?
The change to dpkg seems to be blocked since October. See #432893.
The policy should remain unchanged. The correct phrasing is indeed
to say that the package `remains installed'. If the package wasn't
sufficiently close to installed to start with then the postinst won't
be called.
Ian.
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