Bug#443334: policy: postinst abort-remove state.

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Raphael Hertzog writes:
>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Ian Jackson wrote:

>>> After all the surprise is that the package became installed.
>>> Redefining the postinst's semantics so that the package doesn't count
>>> as installed in this case is the wrong answer - the right answer is
>>> not to attempt to fix up the package in this case.  If it was broken
>>> beforehand then there's no reason why an aborted removal should try to
>>> restore it to fully working state.

>> Indeed!  [...]

>> Will you implement that change ?

> Yes.

Hi Ian,

I have lost track of the status of this and I don't know if a Policy
change is still needed here.  Has this change been made in dpkg?  Is there
something that should be changed in the Policy wording at this point?

Thanks for any additional information!

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>