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

To: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Cc: 443334@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#443334: policy: postinst abort-remove state.
From: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 20:13:40 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] 18326.20084.20656.754488@davenant.relativity.greenend.org.uk>
Reply-to: Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>, 443334@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <87myrrcua9.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
References: <18187.50915.735839.745678@davenant.relativity.greenend.org.uk> <18215.31418.402716.678362@davenant.relativity.greenend.org.uk> <20071031080953.GA26192@ouaza.com> <18216.30277.910641.310378@davenant.relativity.greenend.org.uk> <87myrrcua9.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#443334: policy: postinst abort-remove state."):
> 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?

The change to dpkg seems to be blocked since October.  See #432893.

The policy should remain unchanged.  The correct phrasing is indeed
to say that the package `remains installed'.  If the package wasn't
sufficiently close to installed to start with then the postinst won't
be called.

Ian.

Reply to:

Prev by Date: Bug#461443: marked as done (libgtk2.0-0: Must not use a symlink for /usr/share/doc/libgtk2.0-0)
Next by Date: Bug#443334: marked as done (policy: postinst abort-remove state.)
Previous by thread: Processed: severity of 461443 is wishlist
Next by thread: Bug#443334: marked as done (policy: postinst abort-remove state.)
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread