Bug#373212: policy: postinst abort-remove without in-favour not allowed by maintscript templates

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

reopen 373212
thanks

Sorry, I never got the close notification..

>> I've been reading more thorougly about the dpkg maintainer script
>> interface.  I noticed that the neither the dpkg maintscript comments
>> nor your maintscript templates allow for the postinst "abort-remove"
>> case which is called with only a single parameter (instead of $2 =
>> "in-favour").  I've filed #372145 against dpkg to fix the comments.
>> The template files used should be updated too, especially for the
>> policy package, since they are a good reference; I'd like to patch
>> dh_make shortly to use some combination of your code and dpkg
>> comments.  
>
>        Err, I am not sure this belongs to policy, which does not have
> any "maintscript templates".  Policy does document the call
> correctly, so I am closing this report. 
I'm talking about /var/lib/dpkg/info/debian-policy/*.p*
It affects your other templates, too.