Re: bug #561324: asking questions in postinst
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:37:45AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org> writes:
>
> > Uhm, yes, you are right. So it wouldn't help anyway. Only possibility
> > would be a versioned dependency (according to [1]) or to really do it in
> > the postinst. Leads to the question which of the solution we'd prefer.
>
> > [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#fr10
>
> I'm not sure what sort of versioned dependency you're referring to, but
> config scripts can only use binaries from essential packages or debconf
> itself. See debconf-devel:
I'm not sure if you actually read the remark in the policy I linked to.
According to the policy _all_ versioned dependencies and debconf are
installed before the config script is run.
> Note that the config script is run before the package is unpacked.
> It should only use commands that are in essential packages. The
> only dependency of your package that is guaranteed to be met when
> its config script is run is a dependency (possibly versioned) on
> debconf itself.
Hm. Contrary information. Makes me wonder weither debconf-devel or
debian-policy is right..
Regards,
Patrick
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