Re: RFC: allow output from maintainer scripts
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> This means future debs can't be installed with the current dpkg. It
> means future dpkg's can never output anything. It means all debs that do
> anything important in their postinst need an --assert-somethingorother
> in their preinst. Seems like needless complexity to me.
Well, the changes to dpkg are already propelling us to this eventuality
and there is no migration plan.
Why don't we make one, and solve these problems too?
Jason
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