Re: triggers wishlist
On 2008-03-30, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
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> Michael Biebl wrote:
>> > - update-icon-caches
>> > - update-desktop-database
>> > These are not very slow, nor used by a great many packages,
>> > but triggerizing them would allow getting rid of dh_icons and=20
>> > dh_desktop eventually, which I would appreciate.
>>=20
>> Sounds interesting.
>> What would have a maintainer to do, to support triggers?
>> As a lot of Gnome/KDE packages use cdbs, would fixing kde.mk/gnome.mk be
>> sufficient?
I think kde.mk is mostly used to set correct autofoo arguments and such.
Not about the postinst snippets, where kde.mk just relies on the cdbs
debhelper.mk bruteforcing.
> The maintainers of packages using them then stop running them manually
> in the maintainer scripts. This could be accomplished by a debhelper
> modification.
A debhelper modification and a binNMU of related packages ? ;)
Maybe having the trigger enabled dh_foo fill in misc:Depends with a
versioned dependency on a trigger aware dpkg ?
/Sune
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