Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Adam Heath wrote:

> On Mon, 27 May 2002, Santiago Vila wrote:
> [...]
> > We could also omit the "2> /dev/null" and the "true" if we put a dummy
> > alternatives-managed install-docs which does nothing in some essential package.
>
> I am against ANY maintainer script redirecting stderr and stdout of a program
> to /dev/null.  See 146774 for an example of what happens when this is done.

Ok, suggestion withdrawn.

It's interesting that debhelper uses

if [ -x /usr/bin/update-menus ]; then update-menus ; fi

for update-menus and command -v for install-docs.

We could agree that if/whenever the doc-base package changes the location
of install-docs, it should keep a compatibility symlink. This way we could
manage install-docs the same we manage update-menus.


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