Re: reasons why downgrades are Not Supported
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- -=| Tobias Richter, 14.01.2007 13:29 |=-
> dam@modsoftsys.com wrote:
>> (pre|post)rm of package version 1.5 must undo the actions.
>> However, what exactly is undone must depend on the new version (1.3,
>> 1.0, 0.4), which would clutter the code.
>
> 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.
See the section "Downgrades" on the following excellent page:
http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/MaintainerScripts
dam
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