Re: dkms needs a pre-depends entry (Policy 3.5)
On 07/18/2010 02:35 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 17:03 +0000, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> On 2010-07-17, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>>> The postinst for nvidia-kernel-dkms invokes dkms, which invokes
>>> lsb_release. lsb_release hasn't been configured at this point so its
>>> module has not been installed for the default Python version. But I
>>> agree that there is no need for Pre-Depends.
>>
>> Quoting `/usr/share/doc/python-support/README.gz':
>> | What this means is, if you need a namespace package or depend on a
>> | package that needs it, *and* that you need to use it during the
>> | postinst phase (e.g. for a daemon), you will have to add the following
>> | command in the postinst before starting your daemon:
>> | update-python-modules -p
>
> Then this is a bug in python-support. If A depends on B, then A should
> not need to know whether B depends on C (which may well change over
> tme).
Lets remove all triggers from dpkg then. Updating the Python modules for every
new module package is a big waste of time, running it as a trigger results into
the described problem in a few rare cases. What do you prefer?
Also adding update-python-modules -p to a postinst script does not hurt, even
when dependencies change.
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