On 2018-10-04 21:10, Simon Richter wrote: > We could bring the same to dpkg by moving things out of maintainer scripts > and into control files. The big items would be > > - alternatives > - diversions > - statoverride > - service start/stop I agree and like to add: - create system users/groups - update-icon-cache and similar - create various symlinks - some directory and file creation in postinst could probably avoided, too Cheers