Re: code reuse in debian/package.config

[Yuri Oleynikov (יורי אולייניקוב <yurkao@gmail.com>]

I've tried to - that not helped at all

Package: abc

Version: 1.0-10

Architecture: all

Maintainer: root <root@unknown>

Installed-Size: 35

Pre-Depends: libxyz-common-tools

Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0

Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>

Priority: optional

Section: unknown

Filename: pool/me/a/abc/abc_1.0-10_all.deb

Description: abc

Package: libxyz-common-tools

Source: xxx

Version: 1.0-1

Architecture: all

Maintainer: root <root@unknown>

Installed-Size: 30

Homepage: <insert the upstream URL, if relevant>

Priority: optional

Section: unknown

Filename: pool/me/x/xxx/libxyz-common-tools_1.0-1_all.deb

2014-12-29 0:58 GMT+02:00 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>:

"Yuri Oleynikov (יורי אולייניקוב" <yurkao@gmail.com> writes:

> But, when installing packageA without libxyz-common-tools is
> preinstalled - packageA.config script won' run?

> Is there any way to solve the problem?

The config script runs during a preinstall stage, before the package
dependencies are installed.  I think that you can work around this by
having your internal packages use Pre-Depends for the package that
provides your script library (instead of Depends).

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


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