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Re: Should ucf be of priority required?



On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 06:12:24AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Not wanting to start another flame war, but ...
> 
> On Sa, 05 Dez 2009, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> > The crux is the last point. For a good reason postrm must not require
> > tools it depends on to be around when removing the package itself.
> 
> making dpkg policy compliant would help, too, then we removed package 
> can expect dependcies to be present.

Seems like this would be tough work for dpkg to handle ;)

Apart from this (Warning: What comes next is not really thought about):
Would it be an option to let dpkg support the purge action in its prerm
script and run ucf --purge therein? Is this possible at all?

Regards,
Patrick


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