Bug#1065170: tech-ctte: Requesting advice on glib2.0 #1065022, file deletion by postrm during t64 transition
Re: Simon McVittie
> libglib2.0-0t64 could gain a preinst that deletes
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/libglib2.0-0:${DEB_HOST_ARCH}.postrm. This is a clear
> Policy violation, but perhaps between closely cooperating packages
> (glib2.0 and, er, glib2.0) it would be the least-bad answer to this?
That doesn't sound too bad to me.
> Possible solution: other ideas?
Make glib2.0-t64 use a different cache filename?
> If the solution that is chosen is a Policy violation (like deleting
> the problematic postrm) then I would also like to have clarity that the
> Policy violation is tolerable as a less-bad solution, and therefore will
> not itself be treated as a RC bug in trixie.
I would tend to treat policy as a set of rules that you normally
shouldn't break, but if there's a clear argument why it makes sense in
given case, it would be quite silly to reject that solution just
because of formal reasons.
Christoph
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