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Re: Semantic change for dpkg triggers?



On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:21:40PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 6/2/2011 8:33 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> >In general, the reason for this rule about satisfying dependencies is
> >that a triggering package may well not be functional at all until the
> >trigger is run.  For example, if the triggering package T needs to be
> >registered with the interested package I, a package D which depends on
> >T may find that T does not work - and D's postinst may fail due to T
> >being broken.

> If postinst depends on the package, then it should be a pre-depend,
> not a depend, shouldn't it?

Absolutely not.

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