Re: Triggers status?

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Colin Watson writes ("Triggers status?"):
> I have a change to man-db that uses triggers to update the manual page
> database automatically, fixing my second oldest remaining bug. I'd love
> to upload this. While it doesn't break with a non-triggers-supporting
> dpkg, I'd rather wait until triggers are merged in case their
> implementation changes incompatibly, so I'm curious as to how long I
> might need to wait.

The implementation of triggers is not going to change incompatibly.
It's well-tested now in Ubuntu and should just be merged into Debian's
dpkg.

I think you should just upload your man-db change to Debian.

Ian.