Am Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:44:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Haber <mh+debian-mentors@zugschlus.de>: > How many times have you been pointed to Debian policy? Do you mean "after I already read it"? Then the answer is "too many times"... > And you are still asking questions that neatly show that you didn't > read it? And that also neatly show that you have never looked at other > packages? Maybe my question was confusing, that's possible. As I understand the policy, in details the chapters 6.6, 6.6 and 6.7, there have to be some actions performed on various targets of the files. The main target in postinst, when someone initially installs the software, is "configure", and in postrm, when someone purges it, it is "purge". For these two targets I found examples by looking at some other packages (phpmyadmin, album, ...) that do very similar things. And I implemented those actions to be performed also in my scripts. Now it seems, that I should also perform actions on some targets that do not get used in real installation process: who should upgrade the package, when there has never been a version of it before? Who should downgrade the package (to a non-existent version before)? I did some tests (installing, removing,purging ...) and there was no unexpected behavior. So now I don't understand, really NOT understand, what you are complaining about? Is it because I want to release a piece of software that you don't like? Is it because of me as person? If there's any other place where I could ask, not just "if there has something to be done", but "what in special case has to be done", then please pint me over there. No problem for me to getting told that this is the wrong list too, but anyone should even tell me then ... I followed your suggestions not to ask on debian-devel, and i have read the policy more often now, especially the chapters 6.5 to 6.7 about control files and their behavior, but there are still questions that affect the actual state of the package. > Greetings > Marc Peace Daniel -- mfg Daniel Knabl http://www.tirolinux.net PGP Fingerprint daniel@aio4u.com A069 671B 39F2 E9B9 FB34 68BB 4BEC 1344 C8A4 3F0B
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