Bug#425523: debian-policy: Should describe error-unwind in case "dpkg-deb -x" fails
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: normal
Currently, "6.6 Details of unpack phase of installation or upgrade" says
at number 4:
,----
| The new package's files are unpacked, overwriting any that may be on
| the system already, for example any from the old version of the same
| package or from another package. Backups of the old files are kept
| temporarily, and if anything goes wrong the package management system
| will attempt to put them back as part of the error unwind.
`----
But the other parts of this error-unwind are not explained. The first
thing seems to be that new-postrm is called with "abort-upgrade", and I
guess that old-postinst is called with "configure" afterwards, but I
don't know (since my postrm failed...)
Regards, Frank
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (99, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
-- no debconf information
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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