Re: new features in dpkg 1.7.1

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>]

Previously Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> In the past, we always used dpkg --check-supports-foo in the preinst,
> no?

No. You used --assert-* in the preinst, but only if it couldn't be
solved using a versioned (pre-)depends. The popular example is
--assert-working-epochs, since you might not be able to do that using a
versioned dependency.

Wichert.

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