Bug#209855: [PROPOSAL] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg in 6.6 to a footnote

[Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:22:55PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> +++ policy.sgml	Tue Sep  9 17:27:00 2003
> @@ -3648,10 +3648,18 @@
>  
>  	<p>
>  	  If there is no most recently configured version
> -	  <prgn>dpkg</prgn> will pass a null argument; older versions
> -	  of dpkg may pass <tt>&lt;unknown&gt;</tt> (including the
> -	  angle brackets) in this case.  Even older ones do not pass a
> -	  second argument at all, under any circumstances.
> +	  <prgn>dpkg</prgn> will pass a null argument.
> +	    <footnote>
> +	      <p>
> +                Historical note: Truly ancient (pre-1997) versions of
> +                <prgn>dpkg</prgn> passed <tt>&lt;unknown&gt;</tt> (including
> +                the angle brackets) in this case.  Even older ones did not
> +                pass a second argument at all, under any circumstance.  Note
> +                that upgrades using such an old dpkg version are unlikely to
> +                work for other reasons, even if this old argument behavior
> +                is handled by your postinst script.
> +	      </p>
> +	    </footnote>
>  	</p>
>        </sect>

Seconded.

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