Bug#80342: policy does not mention preinst scripts
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 07:38:18AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > > preinst scripts are not mentioned anywhere in policy and should be.
> > Why?
> > And they're mentioned in the packaging manual, no, which should become part
> > of policy in the next update, whenever that is.
> Every other maintainer script is mentioned in debian-policy, so we should at
> least mention all of them. Or remove the text about the others.
So you want a section:
A.1.1
ObMaintainerScript: preinst
?
The Packaging manual defines what control files are allowable and what
they're for; policy only mentions them if they're particularly relevant
to whatever policy item's being discussed.
Cheers,
aj
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