On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 05:14, Martin Costabel wrote:
> On lundi, fév 17, 2003, at 08:48 Europe/Paris, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> []
> > [0] Reading the postinst, this seems to be when a certain file is
> > missing. What ever happened to this file? And there are certainly
> > better ways to deal with this than asking for a manual re-install...
>
> I don' think so. This is a neat trick, in fact. The reinstall costs you
> nothing, since you already built the deb file.
Not really. Remove/reinstall takes many minutes on my iBook 500 ---
certainly not as long as the build, but it's not free. And unlike the
build, it requires manual action.
Some suggestions:
1) Add the file back. Depending on how it went missing, it
should still be in dpkg's database. Otherwise things like
dpkg-divert should make it possible.
2) Rename the package, give the new one Provides/Replaces/Conflicts
with the old one. Depend on the new one.
Probably some other courses of action as well --- but I'd have to hear
details before thinking of them.
>
> Don't underestimate the difficulty of upgrading a bunch of heavily
> interdependent packages to a new version that has many new files and
> files moved around to different places.
I don't --- I've been around Debian long enough to appreciate the
difficulty of making things work right.
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