Re: [Q] update-menus
***** JH => Joey Hess
JH> Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote:
>> I have two outstanding Lintian bugs, against auctex and mailcrypt
>> because I call update-menus in prerm instead of in postrm.
[...]
JH> I think it's worth a few more inodes used to put these calls in
JH> the postrm only. The way update-menus works now is a hack
JH> (admittedly, a smart hack, but still a hack), and I think Ian has
JH> expressed interest in adding hooks into dpkg to make it
JH> unneccesary. So I think it would be a mistake to depend on this
JH> behavior.
Ok, I've added a postrm to auctex and mailcrypt and let them call
update-menus from there.
Thanks,
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