Package: ttf-tiresias
Version: 0.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch precise
Using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile' guards introduces
unreliability into upgrades; it means that the conffile is removed or
not depending on whether dpkg happens to be unpacked before
ttf-tiresias. This seems generally undesirable; it would be better to
enforce a single code path. (This is academic for Debian because the
version of dpkg in squeeze supported dpkg-maintscript-helper, hence
Severity: wishlist; Ubuntu's last LTS release didn't have a sufficient
version of dpkg for that which is why I care.)
It would be nice to just use dh_installdeb's support for generating
dpkg-maintscript-helper commands, which was introduced in debhelper
8.1.0. This would remove duplicate code from your maintainer scripts -
in fact, you'd no longer need to have handwritten maintainer scripts at
all. Here's a patch:
* Use maintscript support in dh_installdeb rather than writing out
dpkg-maintscript-helper commands by hand. We now simply Pre-Depend on a
new enough version of dpkg rather than using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper
supports' guards, leading to more predictable behaviour on upgrades.
diff -Nru ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/control ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/control
--- ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/control 2011-07-21 09:16:50.000000000 +0100
+++ ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/control 2012-02-13 13:31:22.000000000 +0000
@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Gürkan Sengün <gur...@phys.ethz.ch>
Uploaders: Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~), unzip
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8.1.0~), unzip
Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Homepage: http://www.tiresias.org/fonts/
Package: ttf-tiresias
Architecture: all
+Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}
Depends: ${misc:Depends}
Description: Fonts for the visually impaired
This is a family of realist sans-serif typefaces that were designed for best
diff -Nru ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/maintscript
ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/maintscript
--- ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/maintscript 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/maintscript 2012-02-13 13:30:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-tiresias.hints 0.1-2
diff -Nru ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postinst ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postinst
--- ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postinst 2011-07-21 09:13:22.000000000 +0100
+++ ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postinst 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-set -e
-
-if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile 2>/dev/null; then
- dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-tiresias.hints
0.1-2 -- "$@"
-fi
-
-#DEBHELPER#
diff -Nru ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postrm ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postrm
--- ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postrm 2011-07-21 09:13:26.000000000 +0100
+++ ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/postrm 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-set -e
-
-if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile 2>/dev/null; then
- dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-tiresias.hints
0.1-2 -- "$@"
-fi
-
-#DEBHELPER#
diff -Nru ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/preinst ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/preinst
--- ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/preinst 2011-07-21 09:13:29.000000000 +0100
+++ ttf-tiresias-0.1/debian/preinst 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-set -e
-
-if dpkg-maintscript-helper supports rm_conffile 2>/dev/null; then
- dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-tiresias.hints
0.1-2 -- "$@"
-fi
-
-#DEBHELPER#
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]
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