Re: prerm/postinst scripts failing silently(?)

[Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>]

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Serafeim Zanikolas schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm adopting a package that produces several binaries, and I need to adapt it
> so that every binary will have its own prerm and postinst scripts (issue
> #315318). I tried calling the scripts debian/binaryX.{prerm,postinst}, but
> they seem to be ignored when installing the binary packages (postinst calls
> update-alternatives but there is no sign of it actually being called), and I
> don't see any error messages when installing the package by hand). Attached
> are the scripts for one of the binaries.
> 
> Any hints on how I could debug this?

Short answer:
Try it with set -x instead of e

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