Re: reasons why downgrades are Not Supported

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Subject: Re: reasons why downgrades are Not Supported
From: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:06:59 +0100
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Tobias Richter wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the old (pre|post)rm can only be called
> with 'remove', 'pruge' or 'upgrade'. So the script does not know that 
> there is a downgrade (to which version?) being installed afterwards. 

maintainerscripts can call dpkg to get the version of the installed package.

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