Bug#89674: PROPOSAL] Clarify ldconfig usage
Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
> That's probably correct; they function perfectly if everything works,
> but if the postinst ends up being called with an abort-* argument, I'm
> not sure that it would. Any experts out there?
As postinst is always the last thing that dpkg does on a package, if it
does break, then you'd be in trouble anyway as the next package that comes
along and runs ldconfig will break as well.
> Perhaps we can temporarily change "must not" to "should not"?
We should simply remove the "and only if" part.
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