Re: include in mentors faq? Re: DFSG compliant packages (Solution)

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

>> >> 	Another one, it depends on some tools, like rpm2cpio to updated
>> >> properly. Should those tools be included as a dependecies on the control

> and

>           The `Depends' field should also be used if the `postinst',
>           `prerm' or `postrm' scripts require the package to be present in
>           order to run.  Note, however, that the `postrm' cannot rely on
>           any non-essential packages to be present during the `purge'
>           phase.

> Upgrading is typically in the postinst.  Or did I misunderstand?

I'm pretty sure that he's talking about updating the .orig.tar.gz tarball,
and the script that was upthread called rpm2cpio as part of that.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>