Re: Possibly quite a few bugs?
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:56:23PM -0700, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > > ( ie echo "postrm called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2 )
> >
> > These are probably generated by debhelper
>
> No they arn't.
>
> > (I know that I didn't write this code by hand for aptitude..),
>
> Well then you copied it from someone, or used some template[1]. Debhelper
> clearly delimits all changes it makes to package scripts, and it does
> not contain the above text.
You're right. I'm stupid. :P
> | I encountered a rather odd thing the other day, some documentation
> | links with dhelp were still present even though I had used
> | dpkg --purge to remove the package.
>
> It happens commonly when packages misuse dhelp in conjunction with the
> FHS transition that that package handles so poorly. The fix is generally
> to delete the crap dhelp leaves behind in /usr/doc in your preinst.
Ok. This isn't applicable to me, though. (whew! :) ) I just have the
supposedly broken quoting in my postinst..
Daniel
> [1] dh_make [2]
> [2] dh_make is NOT a part of debhelper
Sorry about that. :\
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