Re: Dependency for pre-configure script

2023-03-18 Thread Antonio Russo
On 3/18/23 09:19, Russ Allbery wrote: > Antonio Russo writes: > >> Indeed, trying to install a package with a pre-depends on certbot that >> has a debconf debian/config file does not have certbot installed by the >> time the debconf script starts. This is on testing. > > See section 8 of the de

Re: Dependency for pre-configure script

2023-03-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Antonio Russo writes: > Indeed, trying to install a package with a pre-depends on certbot that > has a debconf debian/config file does not have certbot installed by the > time the debconf script starts. This is on testing. See section 8 of the debconf specification: The config-file contain

Re: Dependency for pre-configure script

2023-03-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Antonio Russo (2023-03-18 07:49:00) > Hello, > > I'm trying to perform a task during debian/package.config which > requires another package to be installed. I initially thought > pre-depends would be strong enough, because [1] describes it by: > > This field is like Depends, except t

Dependency for pre-configure script

2023-03-18 Thread Antonio Russo
Hello, I'm trying to perform a task during debian/package.config which requires another package to be installed. I initially thought pre-depends would be strong enough, because [1] describes it by: This field is like Depends, except that it also forces dpkg to complete installation of th