Re: Proposal for a "Bits from dpkg developers"
Hi,
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Guillem Jover wrote:
> I reworded some things, and added the new stuff since 1.15.7 that I
> mentioned on my other mail. Hope to not have missed anything else
> important/user visible. Please take a look, and feel free to send.
Thanks! It looks great, I made a few typo fixes, added a sentence wrt
Jonathan's concern and sent it.
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> | If the trigger processing is not critical for the activating package
> | to actually work, then you should consider using these new
> | directives. If you do so, you will have to add a
> | “Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.16.1)” to ensure the new dpkg is
> | installed even before your package is unpacked. See deb-triggers(5)
> | for details.
>
> Has it been discussed on debian-devel whether such a Pre-Depends
> is worth it, and if so for which packages?
No, I expect each package maintainer to discuss it if they feel the need.
I put a sentence for this in the final version I just sent.
> I personally think that it really would be worth it in this case for
> any package of priority "standard" or lower (and maybe even packages
> of priority "important").
More than the priority of the package, it's the impact of the trigger
that must be considered. IMO it's totally worth it for a package like
man-db whose triggers is almost always activated.
bash-completion is not priority standard but was intending to have a
trigger on /bin /usr/bin and so on. This one should definitely need
to use the new form too!
Cheers,
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