Bug#248693: hooks for extra local administrator's preinst postinst prerm postrm
Package: dpkg
Severity: wishlist
Idea: hooks upon installing or removing or even reconfiguring any
package that would look for system administrator extra scripts for
that package.
E.g., after any wwwoffle upgrade I want this to fire up:
f=/usr/share/wwwoffle/search/namazu/wwwoffle-mknmz-lasttime&&
grep no-delete $f >/dev/null||echo NO-DELETE missing from $f !!
to be sure that I know about an unfixed critical bug before it blows
away my database.
In fact I'd also like to send myself reminders "remember to backup
wwwoffle-namazu database" upon (just before) any wwwoffle upgrade. Or
in fact instead of sending it I could echo it. then "echo hit RET to
proceed; read" so I would indeed do it before going any further into
the installation.
upon (just after) fetchmail upgrades, I'd like to send myself
reminders "check that x y z symlinks have not been relinked".
etc. etc. lots of little things to do upon installing/removing various
programs... so maybe instead of just running
/var/lib/dpkg/info/xxxx.yyyy, one could also look for
/etc/dpkg/hooks/xxxx.zzzz
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