Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature (v2, repost)

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

Florent Rougon writes ("Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature (v2, repost)"):
> OK. In this case, that's acceptable. Not perfect nevertheless, because I
> think that in non-trivial upgrades, there are often several dpkg runs
> (e.g., unpacking, configuring, unpacking again, configuring again), and
> this would lead to mktexlsr & Co being run several times before
> texlive-base-bin is configured in the end, but it's still much better
> than the current situation.

FWIW I think this repeated execution of separate dpkg runs is not
ideal and might be considered a bug in apt.

But anyway this problem can be avoided if apt is later changed to use
--suppress-triggers on all the non-final runs and to run dpkg
--configure --pending at the end (rather than trying to provide a list
of packages).

Ian.