Bug#318214: marked as done (debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in section 8.1.1)
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Subject: debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in section 8.1.1
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.1
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Tags: patch
As discussed on debian-mentors recently (though apparently not in the
list archives as of this writing), the wording of a package's ldconfig
requirements are unclear.
The following patch rewords the unclear paragraph.
--- orig/policy.sgml
+++ mod/policy.sgml
@@ -4503,15 +4503,18 @@
</p>
<p>
- The package must call <prgn>ldconfig</prgn> in the
- <prgn>postinst</prgn> script if the first argument is
- <tt>configure</tt>; the <prgn>postinst</prgn> script may
- optionally invoke <prgn>ldconfig</prgn> at other times. The
- package should call <prgn>ldconfig</prgn> in the
- <prgn>postrm</prgn> script if the first argument is
- <tt>remove</tt>. The maintainer scripts must not invoke
- <prgn>ldconfig</prgn> under any circumstances other than those
- described in this paragraph.<footnote>
+ The package maintainer scripts must only call
+ <prgn>ldconfig</prgn> under these circumstances:
+ <list compact="compact">
+ <item>When the <prgn>postinst</prgn> script is run with a
+ first argument of <tt>configure</tt>, the script must call
+ <prgn>ldconfig</prgn>, and may optionally invoke
+ <prgn>ldconfig</prgn> at other times.</item>
+ <item>When the <prgn>postrm</prgn> script is run with a
+ first argument of <tt>remove</tt>, the script should call
+ <prgn>ldconfig</prgn>.</item>
+ </list>
+ <footnote>
<p>
During install or upgrade, the preinst is called before
the new files are installed, so calling "ldconfig" is
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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 3.6.2.2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
debian-policy_3.6.2.2.dsc
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.6.2.2.dsc
debian-policy_3.6.2.2.tar.gz
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.6.2.2.tar.gz
debian-policy_3.6.2.2_all.deb
to pool/main/d/debian-policy/debian-policy_3.6.2.2_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 318214@bugs.debian.org,
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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.6.2.2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Policy List <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Description:
debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
Closes: 224770 257726 315470 318147 318214 321790 321792 326633 334819 334913 337539 338493 340189 341992 343933 344310
Changes:
debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Manoj ]
* Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
* Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
* Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
(Closes: #334913).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
"rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
* Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
* Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
(Closes: #315470).
Files:
7f4d17e9692491ba2d2f1d3d16ba067b 821 doc optional debian-policy_3.6.2.2.dsc
2b7563b736b51479752984ef67bec258 1179886 doc optional debian-policy_3.6.2.2.tar.gz
839cbbc23b49b57b7b67aa17f3e1d1f9 1688384 doc optional debian-policy_3.6.2.2_all.deb
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