Re: strange preinst tests about --assert-working-epoch
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 01:01:47AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Martin Quinson wrote:
> > It seems bad to me: It's a kind of dependency there, no ? But on the other
> > hand, they just depend a recent dpkg to be installed, not to be used...
>
> It is a dependency that might not be possible to be resolved by an old
> dpkg: if it is a versioned dependency using epochs and you are using an
> dpkg which does not support epoch you need an assertion like that.
>
> At this point in time epochs have been in use for so lang that doing
> that assertion check doesn't make any sense anymore though.
It didn't make much sense in maintainer scripts in the first place,
unless you implement --assert-running-dpkg-and-installed-dpkg-are-the-same
(or a saner implementation of assertions)
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