Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.8 Severity: normal Hi!
Starting with dpkg 1.18.5, several maintainer script actions involving a new package version, get that version as an argument after the old version, because they could not get it in any other easy way. The new version was only available in the new package somewhere in the filesystem. One previous way to workaround this limitation was to inject the new version at build time into those maintainer scripts, which is rather cumbersome, when dpkg already knows at run-time which new version it is handling. This was proposed and discussed some time ago in the debian-dpkg mailing list. The list of the actions and their new arguments, from the dpkg changelog entry are: - <new-postrm> failed-upgrade <old-version> <new-version> - <new-postrm> abort-install <old-version> <new-version> - <new-postrm> abort-upgrade <old-version> <new-version> - <new-preinst> install <old-version> <new-version> - <new-preinst> upgrade <old-version> <new-version> - <new-prerm> failed-upgrade <old-version> <new-version> Please, update the relevant section to mention those new arguments. Thanks, Guillem
